Diwali Festival: Explosion in firework factory kills seven

Monitoring Desk

NEW DELHI: At least seven workers were killed and nine others were injured in illegal firecracker factory in eastern India just before the Thursday’s Diwali festival.  

Firework sale were on the peak in India during the Diwali festival of Hindu but the government trying to stop or restrict the sale of firework as it was creating pollution and also becoming source of killing innocent people because of it.

District Magistrate Pramod Kumar Das said that the explosion occure on late Wednesday and it completely destroyed the makeshift structure following the fire touched off the gunpowder and chemical stocks which were used to be in the making of fireworks in Balasore district of Odisha state.

Earlier in the month of September, as many as nine people were killed in Jharkhand state of India after their workshop was gutted by fire. India’s firecracker industry, worth nearly one billion dollars a year, is the second largest in the world after China.

Indian Supreme Court this month temporarily banned the sale of firecrackers in New Delhi because of the air pollution threat.

More than two dozen were arrested by police in New Delhi over the illegal sale of firecrackers since the court order on October 9 and have seized cache of firework during the crackdown.