UPCrackerBlast Kushinagar/UNI: Four members of a family were killed in an explosion allegedly because of firecrackers which blew up their house in Kushinagar district in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday morning.
The illegal cracker manufacturing unit was being run in the house of a man named Javed, situated in ward number 11 of Kaptanganj. Some neighbours of the adjacent houses were also injured in the incident.
According to police reports, the explosion took place in the illegal fireworks unit early on Wednesday.
The explosion was so strong that a wall of the house collapsed and the houses nearby also got damaged. Due to the fire, the cooking gas cylinder in the house also exploded.
Soon after the explosion, people gathered at the site on hearing screams. On receiving the information of the blast, fire brigade personnel also reached at the spot to extinguish the fire.
However, the fire had engulfed the nearby houses till the time the fire brigade reached. It took three hours for the fire brigade team to extinguish the fire.
Javed, his wife Anwari, his mother Fatima and his daughter Nazia lost their lives in the blast, as per the reports from local police. Among the injured are Azad, Ramsajanm, Neha, Priyanka, Chandan, Sahin, Sama, Chandani and Afsana.
SP Kushinagar and other senior officers reached at the site to take stock of the situation.
"An explosion took place in an illegal firecracker godown in Aryanagar area under Kaptanganj police station limits on Wednesday morning," Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar Singh said.
It may be mentioned just a week back, a Congress leader named Asim Khan had died in an explosion in an illegal firecracker unit being run from his house in Sardhana, Meerut.
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