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Bengaluru: At least six people were killed in an explosion in a boiler at a sugar factory in Bagalkot district of Karnataka on Sunday. “The death of the six people in the blast in the sugar factory is saddening. The sugar factory is run by the Nirani Group — owned by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker from the state, Murugesh Nirani, and his brothers. Bagalkot district officials have been directed to conduct a probe and submit a report. Kumaraswamy directed district officials to shift the injured to hospitals immediately and asked for the site to be inspected to ascertain the cause of the explosion..