Hyderabad, Sept 2 (PTI): Five workers were injured, two of them critically, during blasting works taken up at a coal mining project of state-owned Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) at Srirampur area in Mancherial district on Wednesday, police said.

The incident occurred at around 6 pm when detonators accidentally misfired resulting in injuries to five people, a senior police official told PTI, quoting preliminary information.

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The five were rushed to a nearby hospital and two of them with severe injuries shifted here,the official said.

It was not clear whether the injured were employees of SCCL or contract workers.

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In June this year, four outsourcing workers were killed and three others seriously injured in an explosion at an Open Cast Coal Mine of SCCL in Peddapalli district.

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