Kancheepuram: Three workers were killed when a boiler exploded at a steel plant, police said on Friday. The boiler exploded midnight on Thursday at the plant in Kaliyaanpoondi, about 30 km from here, injuring eight workers,
police added.

Three of them succumbed to injuries at a government hospital while the condition of five others was stated to be
serious, police said. The reason for the blast was under investigation, they said.