Three dead, 10 injured in fire at India's Gujarat Fluorochemicals plant (updated)

Gujarat Fluorochemicals

16/12/2021 13:41

(Adds details from statement, shares)
    BENGALURU, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Three people were killed and
10 injured in a fire at a plant owned by Indian chemicals maker
Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd  GUJL.NS  in the western state of
Gujarat, the company said late on Thursday.
    The fire at a small standalone plant at its Ranjitnagar site
that makes fluorospeciality chemicals did not lead to gas
emissions and has not impacted any other plants at the site,
Gujarat Fluorochemicals said in a regulatory filing https://www.bseindia.com/xml-data/corpfiling/AttachLive/c0845888-7bcf-4f26-94bf-6a67d2f44ccd.pdf
 after market hours.
    Shares of the company had fallen 8.4% earlier in the day
after local media reported an explosion at one of the company's
plants.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2T12BX

 (Reporting by Chris Thomas in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil
D'Silva)
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