Pune:

Fourteen employees of a chemical factory in Maharashtra’s Pune are confirmed dead and several missing as a massive fire broke out in the sanitizer-manufacturing unit of the firm on Monday.

A big contingent of the local fire department has arrived on the scene to fight the blaze and rescue those stuck inside.

According to news agency PTI, at least six fire engines were rushed to the plant of SVS Aqua Technologies in Pune.

“According to company officials, at least 17 of their workers were missing after the blaze broke out,” an official had told the agency.