At least eight people reported killed, several others wounded after an explosion ripped through a firecracker factory in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state on Saturday
India has a huge demand for firecrackers, which are used in religious festivals and weddings, and there are fatal accidents nearly every year as people work in makeshift factories in the absence of proper safety standards.
An explosion ripped through a firecracker factory in southern India on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding several others, police said. There was no immediate word as to what had caused the explosion in the district of Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu state.Rescuers, police and firefighters rushed to the site.There are fatal accidents nearly every year as people work in makeshift factories in the absence of proper safety standards.A year earlier, 23 workers were killed when a blast occurred while they were making firecrackers in a village in Madhya Pradesh state in central India.
Factories start manufacturing firecrackers months before the nation’s biggest Hindu festivals, when people set them off in celebration.
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