Two scrap dealers were killed after drums filled with a combustible chemical exploded in Maharashtra`s Thane district on Wednesday morning, a civic official said.

The victims were drawing diethylene glycol from the containers at Kambe in Bhiwandi when one of them lit a cigarette, setting off a fire around 8.30 am, the official said.

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Four drums exploded due to the fire, killing the duo, said Avinash Sawant, chief of Thane Municipal Corporation`s regional disaster management cell.

Firefighters reached the spot and put out the fire, he said, adding that the Nizampur police are probing the matter.

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