What the records say
- When
- 2024
- Kind
- Explosion
- Coordinates
- 17.56° N, 82.97° E
- Description
- 2024 industrial disaster in Southern India
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the town its title names, Atchutapuram.
Atchutapuram pharmaceutical factory explosion
2024 industrial disaster in Southern India
An explosion at an Escientia Advanced Sciences pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in the Atchutapuram Special Economic Zone in the Anakapalli district near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on 21 August 2024 killed at least 18 people. Fifty more were injured.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “At least 18 people are killed and 37 others are injured in an explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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