Two employees at Rantus Pharma have been killed in a huge fire at the company’s chemical plant in the Medak district of India, about 50km from Hyderabad.

The fire broke out on Sunday after a reactor exploded, due to an electrical short-circuit.

The facility was gutted by the blaze, which also spread to neighbouring factories, police have said.

Fire fighters battled the flames for five hours before the remains of the missing employees were found in the rubble.

This is the third pharmaceutical reactor explosion in India in the past two months. Last Friday four workers were killed in a blast at Polepalli Special Economic Zone in the district of Mahabubnagar.

In November, three employees at Aurobindo Pharma suffered severe burns after a reactor exploded at a pharmaceutical plant in Andhra Pradesh.

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The employees were working at the generic drug maker’s Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients manufacturing plant when the explosion occurred.