Three workers were killed and 13 others injured, four of them critical, in a mishap at a sugar factory associated with Rural Development Minister Pankaja Munde.
The mishap occurred yesterday evening when boiled sugarcane juice, stored in a tank, fell on workers at the Vaidhaynath Cooperative Sugar Factory in Parli," said G. Shridhar, Superintendent of Police, Beed.
He said that three workers,Madhukar Aadnak, Subhash Karad and Gautam Gadhe, succumbed to severe burn injuries during treatment.
Four more are critical and are battling for life , police said.
An official said that burn injuries suffered by the workers was more than 90 per cent, with only three suffering minor burns.
The injured have been admitted to the local hospitals in Latur and Parli, the official added.
An accidental death report has been filed with the Parli rural police and the police have sought a report from the factory inspector to carry forward investigations, police said.
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