A major fire broke out at the ordnance factory at Badmal in Balangir district on Sunday. The fire, which broke out at the godown of Unit no.15, was still blazing and said to have caused extensive damages, reports said.
Five fire engines from Balangir, Saintala and Titilagarh rushed to the spot to tame the inferno.
Sources said a fire broke out at the godown, which contained stocks of chemicals and equipments imported from Russia. locals suspected a fire that had broken out in a nearby forest could have spread to the factory.
Ordnance Factory Badmal is a unit of the Ministry of Defence which has process plants with state-of-the-art technology from the US, Germany, Switzerland and Bulgaria which are mostly (Programmable logic Control) PlC-based and are used for manufacture of initiatory compositors, automatic filling of detonators, automatic dosing, explosive filling, hot probing, etc.