Raipur, May 05, 2022: Two people were killed when a tyre of a bulldozer exploded while they were filling air in it at a vehicle workshop in the Raipur district of Chhattisgarh, police said today.
The incident, which occurred on May 3 in Raipur’s Siltara Industrial area, was captured on a CCTV camera.
The video footage shows a worker filling air in the huge tyre. Another man then comes and presses the tyre a couple of times in order to check the air quantity, which leads to the explosion.
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The two men were blown away in the powerful explosion, the visuals show.
Both the workers, who were from Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district, were killed in the tyre burst incident, police officials said, adding that an investigation has been launched.