At least 10 dead after fire at Sigachi chemical plant in India's Telangana, media reports say
June 30 (Reuters) - At least 10 people have died and 14 were injured after a reactor explosion triggered a fire at a Sigachi Industries (SIGC.NS), opens new tab unit in India's Telangana state on Monday, Business Standard reported, citing news agency PTI.
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Fact Check: No evidence sole survivor was arrested 48 hours after Air India crash
There is no evidence that the sole survivor of the Air India crash that killed 260 people in June, Viswashkumar Ramesh, was arrested by police shortly after the incident, contrary to posts shared on social media. The London-bound plane crashed shortly after take off in Ahmedabad, western India, on June 12. Ramesh was in seat 11A, positioned close to the emergency exit, and said he managed to walk out of the plane after the crash. The crash killed 241 of the 242 people on board and more people on the ground when the 787-8 Dreamliner hit a medical college hostel. A video posted on TikTok, opens new tab on June 18 said that Ramesh was arrested by police less than 48 hours after the crash and was held in a detention centre in Ahmedabad. In another video, a man asked, opens new tab, 'Do you reckon he was in for a quick bit of money?' The video gathered more than 140,000 views. There is no evidence that Ramesh was arrested, however. Neither India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), opens new tab, the body leading the investigation into the crash, nor India's Ministry of Civil Aviation, opens new tab released any statement accusing Ramesh of involvement. Ahmedabad Police commonly post statements through X,, opens new tab but have yet to mention any arrests linked to the crash. The earliest iteration Reuters found of the claim stems from a now-deleted TikTok video, opens new tab posted on June 14. The account's description, opens new tab reads, 'EVERYTHING IS FAKE!' Ramesh attended his brother's funeral on June 18 and carried his coffin. His brother, Ajay Ramesh, was one of the victims of the crash. Spokespeople for India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the Ahmedabad Police did not respond to Reuters requests for comment. The Ministry of Civil Aviation directed Reuters to press statements published by the ministry in response to a request for comment. Attempted requests for comment sent to Ramesh's family went unanswered. No evidence. There is no evidence that Viswashkumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the Air India plane crash on June 12 that killed over 240 people on board, was arrested 48 hours after the incident. The earliest iteration Reuters found of the claim stems from an account with a description that says everything posted is fake. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work.
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Abandoned Shifnal caravan to be removed after fire
A caravan left in a country lane which was set on fire will be removed by the local Fire and Rescue Service said firefighters were called to Redhill Lane near Shifnal at 12:43 BST on Sunday to put the blaze Madden, 61, said he first saw the caravan in the lane and it appeared to have been abandoned."I couldn't believe it," he said, "I've often seen stuff dumped there but nothing that big before." Mr Madden added: "The signs say they are monitoring it for fly-tipping but obviously not very closely if a whole caravan can be taken down there."Shropshire Council said the caravan would be removed in the next few days. Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
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More than 250,000 Afghans left Iran in June alone, UN says
More than 256,000 Afghans left Iran in June alone, marking a surge in returns to Afghanistan since Tehran set a hard deadline for repatriations, the UN's migration agency International Organization for Migration (IOM) recorded as many as 28,000 Afghans leaving Iran in a single day in June, after the Iranian regime ordered all undocumented Afghans to leave the country by 6 July. The number of Afghan refugees in neighbouring Iran has swelled since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, many of whom live without legal has contributed to growing anti-Afghan sentiment in Iran, with refugees facing systemic discrimination. The IOM said more than 700,000 Afghans had left Iran since January, with spokesperson Avand Azeez Agha telling news agency AFP that 70% had been "forcibly sent back".The surge in repatriations - and the deadline - have come since Iran and Israel engaged in direct conflict with one another, beginning with Israel attacking nuclear and military sites in mid-June. A ceasefire has since been brokered. As the two exchanged daily strikes, the Iranian regime arrested several Afghan migrants it suspected of spying for Israel, state media these claims, a new wave of deportations began. The semi-official Iranian Mehr news agency reported that police had been directed to accelerate deportations, though the police later denied this."We're scared to go anywhere because there's always the fear they might accuse us of being spies," one Afghan migrant in Iran, who we are not naming to protect their identity, told BBC Persian."At the checkpoints, they do body searches and check people's phones. If they find any messages or videos from foreign media on social networks, it could literally put someone's life in danger. "Many Iranians insult us, saying things like: 'you Afghans are spies' or 'you work for Israel'."Numerous reports in Iranian media indicate that even Afghans with valid visas and documentation have been forcibly deported. Some Afghans who were detained and later freed said they were accused by officials of betraying the Jamal, the UN's refugee co-ordinator for Afghanistan, said that while there was now a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, "the consequences of that war continue"."This movement pre-dates the war, but it has been exacerbated by it," he told BBC Pashto. "And what we hear from the returnees is a series of actions that have caused them to come back, some of them quite coercive, others not as much." Afghan refugees are not eligible for Iranian citizenship, even if they are born in the country, while many are unable to open bank accounts, buy SIM cards or live in certain areas. Employment opportunities are also heavily restricted, and are often limited to hard labour with low this latest push to remove them, Iranian authorities have also urged the public to report undocumented Afghans."There are oppressors here, and there are oppressors there," a second Afghan in Iran said. "We migrants have never been free, never lived a free life."Another said "the future for Afghans living in Iran looks really bleak", adding: "The police are violent and humiliating, and now even the Basij [volunteer militia] have been tasked with arresting Afghans."The surge in repatriations comes after Pakistan accelerated its own drive to expel undocumented Afghans, saying it could no longer manage hosting Jamal said the number of refugees returning to Afghanistan from both Iran and Pakistan this year was in excess of one he thanked both nations for taking in millions of Afghans over the past few decades of instability, he urged them to seek a joint solution to the UN director said humanitarian provisions at the border had been "overwhelmed", adding: "There is simply too many people coming back."Maulvi Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy prime minister in the Taliban government, said on Saturday that talks with Iranian officials were under way over the Taliban's transport minister also said it was accelerating efforts to transport refugees from the border to their homes.
