Overview

• Investigators attribute the vaporization of the missing workers to machinery temperatures spiking to about 800 °C during the June 30 explosion.
• Central Forensic Science Laboratory DNA analyses of over 100 recovered samples produced no matches for the missing individuals.
• Sigachi Industries and the district administration have provided ₹15 lakh in interim relief per family, with written commitments to pay the remaining ₹85 lakh after death certificates are issued.
• Additional Collector B Chandrashekar has petitioned state and central authorities to waive the standard seven-year missing-person rule for prompt legal death declarations.
• Debris-combing operations continue under a five-member Telangana government probe into the blast’s technical causes and safety lapses.