Andhra Pradesh government assures financial help, jobs to kin of pharma unit blast victims

S. Venkateswar handing over the particulars of compensation to the next of kin of a victim who died in the industrial explosion at TIL Healthcare plant. October 5, 2026 | Photo Credit: Special arrangement

Tirupati District Collector S. Venkateswar has said that the Andhra Pradesh government would stand by the families of the workers who died in the industrial explosion at a pharmaceutical unit in Sri City on October 3, 2026. He said the company, TIL Healthcare Private Limited, and the State government would assist the victims’ next of kin.

Five workers were killed in a boiler explosion at the pharmaceutical facility in the Sri City Special Economic Zone in Satyavedu mandal of Tirupati district on the morning of October 3.