A major explosion at Nagarjuna Agrochemicals could have claimed hundreds of lives, but fortunately no casualties were reported since most of them were out of the block on a tea break when the explosion took place. This was confirmed by the plant's president Ramaraju. He has also said that 500 employees were working at the plant and the explosion took place at one block out of six blocks. The reasons behind the explosion were, however, not ascertained.

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