May 17, In a blast in the boiler plant of a private power company, 11 workers were injured and an engineer was killed. An official said, "the blast occurred during a routine inspection of boilers at unit-2 of the power plant in Anuppur district’s Jaithari sub-division at around 7.50 PM on Monday".

According to Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) R V Dwivedi, The company’s senior engineer, identified as Prafulla Kumar Jha - 49 years old , sustained critical burn injuries.

Three workers are in critical condition and all of them have been admitted to a private hospital in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district.

The spot has been visited by Anuppur Collector N S Parmar and Superintendent of Police Anurag Sharma in the morning to take stock of the situation and ordered a magisterial probe into the incident.