A detonator blast on Sunday left as many as two labourers injured in National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) thermal power station in Korba district of Chhattisgarh, police said. The incident took place at the coal holding plant section of NTPC when labourers were shifting coal consignment supplied by South Eastern Coalfields limited (SECl), said Korba Superintendent of Police (SP) Amresh Kumar Mishra.
According to SP, while undertaking task of shifting coal consignment delivered by SECl, a detonator suspected to be lying in the shipment got ignited leaving two labourers injured. The injured labourers were identified as Sukhram Munda (35) and Bhopal Singh Munda (37) who are contractual labourers of Priya Tech company. The injured were rushed to NTPC hospital where the condition of duo is reported to be stable. As a part of investigation, a police team will soon be visiting SECl from where the coal consignment was delivered, Mishra said.