Nagpur, March 1 For Kanta Chachane, Sunday began like any other workday at an explosives factory in Nagpur, but within hours, her world collapsed when a powerful explosion at a unit there claimed the life of her daughter.
Chachane, employed in a different unit of the factory on the same campus, is shocked and struggling to come to terms with the reality that her 26-year-old daughter, Mangeshri Yeskar, is no more.
She recalled hearing a huge explosion around 7 am, followed by continuous blasts for nearly an hour and a half. Workers rushed out of the unit as injured persons were carried to hospitals.
"I am devastated," the 42-year-old woman told