Hyderabad, June 10 -- The death toll rose to nine on Wednesday following the death of another worker in the accident at Andhra Pradesh's Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) also known as Visakhapatnam Steel Plant on Monday, officials said.

Visakhapatnam district joint collector G Vidyadhari said that a contract worker K Pydi Raju succumbed to severe burn injuries at Seven Hills Hospitals at 8.17am on Wednesday. "He was one of the two workers among the six injured who suffered 90% burns," she said.

The body was shifted to King George Hospital for post-mortem and was handed over to his family members, Vidyadhari added.

Meanwhile, the three-member expert committee appointed by the Union Ministry of Steel to investigate the cause visited ...