The death toll in the Boisar MIDC explosion rose to eight on Sunday with the NDRF team carrying out a rescue operation at the site recovering two more bodies – one of a 14-year-old girl, who was missing from the premises since the blast happened, and the other of an official from a lift-manufacturing company, who was there to meet Ank Pharma's owner.

According to sources, the blast occurred when employees of Ank Pharma Pvt Ltd were conducting a test in the reactor at an under-construction plant site situated in Boisar MIDC on Saturday evening. While the employees died on the spot, the owner of the company was grievously injured. The impact of the explosion was such that the other workers at the site got trapped under debris.

Ank Pharma was about to start a new company at the premises and work on the 3-storey building was on when the blast happened around 7pm. The families of six workers resided on the same premises. The deceased include three members of the same family. While two young girls were saved, their parents died in the explosion. The body of the lift-manufacturing company's official was recovered around 8am on Sunday.