The death toll in last week’s blast at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) has gone up to 17, with one of the injured officials succumbing to burn injuries here on Wednesday.
The victim has been identified as Deputy Manager of VSP Ch Prabhakara Rao who succumbed to burn injuries on Wednesday morning while undergoing treatment at a corporate hospital. Earlier, Assistant General Manager in steel melting shop MBRS Sharma died on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at a corporate hospital in Mumbai.
The explosion had occurred at the Oxygen Control Unit near the Steel Melting Shop-II at Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) on the night of June 13.
Though the Andhra Pradesh Government had ordered an inquiry into the explosion, a Central team comprising former Steel Authority of India Limited chairman S R Jain,chairman of Metallurgical and Engineering Consultants (MECON) K K Mehrotra and the HoD of the department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi, is scheduled to visit the plant on Wednesday to probe the explosion and the causes behind the blast and submit its report before July 18. (INN)
