New Delhi: Explosions in two private factories manufacturing explosives for mining activities have killed at least eight people and injured another 40 in central India, according to media reports on Sunday.
Te two adjacent factories in Singrauli, a town in Madhya Pradesh state, have almost been reduced to rubble by the impact of the blasts.
Anurag, a police officer, said all the injured have been hospitalised in Singrauli.
The cause of the explosions was not immediately known.
The first explosion occurred in the Ideal Explosives Industries and it engulfed the adjacent factory.
Two explosives factories in the town of , Madhya Pradesh, India exploded reducing the buildings to fragments on Sunday evening.
Madhya Pradesh, India

"The explosions were so severe that both the factories were reduced to rubble under which 30 people were feared dead," police said. Another 100 have been injured as a result of the blasts.

The Ideal Explosives industries sustained an explosion at about 6:30 p.m. local time. The Rajasthan Explosives Private Limited next door soon followed.

The exact cause of the first blast is unknown.  It is reported that  had been leaking from the accident site. 

There are several factories situated in the Bairhan Industrial Area. The factories manufactured explosives for use in the local coal fields.