
A blast triggered by a suspected gas leak in a ship being dismantled in western India killed five workers and injured another seven on Saturday, AP quoted police as saying.
The explosion occurred in a chemical tank while the workers were dismantling the old vessel at the Alang ship-breaking yard in Gujarat state, said police officer Ramesh Budhrejiya.
The blast was believed to have been caused by a sudden gas leakage which also started a fire, the Press Trust of India quoted police officer K. J. Rathod as saying.
The ship-breaking yard is nearly 1,100 kilometers (685 miles) west of New Delhi.
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