Ranchi, June 28 (IANS) Seven people, including two engineers, were injured when a boiler of a thermal power plant burst in Jharkhand's Bokaro district Friday, police said.

According to police, the boiler of unit seven burst when maintenance work was being carried out at Chandrapura thermal power plant. The injured are being treated in a hospital in Bokaro.

A short circuit is believed to have caused the blast.