Tensions on ground translated into a heated exchange between the US and Israel, and Iran during an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting on Saturday.

As widespread destruction across West Asia dominates headlines after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s assassination in a US and Israeli joint operation, a small Indian village has quietly become part of the global narrative.

Seventeen people were killed and 18 others injured in a devastating explosion that occurred early this morning at SBL Energy Limited – a mining and industrial explosives manufacturing company located in Raulgaon, in Katol near Nagpur, police said.