{"id":57400,"date":"2024-02-07T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/death-toll-in-indian-firework-factory-rises-to-11\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:35:04","slug":"death-toll-in-indian-firework-factory-rises-to-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/death-toll-in-indian-firework-factory-rises-to-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Indian firework factory rises to 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The death toll in a firework factory explosion<\/a> in India has risen to 11 and the two owners have been arrested, police said on Wednesday, a day after the devastating blast.<\/p>\n

District police chief Sanjeev Kumar Kanchan confirmed 11 deaths, while more than 150 people were injured.<\/p>\n

The fiery blast sent chunks of rock and metal flying far from the destroyed factory complex in Harda town, in India\u2019s central Madhya Pradesh state.<\/p>\n

\u201cA whole concrete column landed in my property,\u201d said Sargam Jain, who works around 100 metres from the factory site.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a deafening noise and the earth shook,\u201d said local resident Shanti Jaisani, a lawyer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought a helicopter had crashed in our town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fireworks are hugely popular in India, particularly during the Hindu festival of Diwali, as well as for use during wedding celebrations.<\/p>\n

Explosions often occur in firecracker workshops in the country.<\/p>\n

In 2019, at least 18 people were killed in a firework factory explosion in Batala in Punjab state, and another 10 were killed<\/a> in the same year in Bhadohi in Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n

Many factories fail to stick to basic safety requirements.<\/p>\n

State Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has ordered an investigation into the disaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guilty will be punished,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The death toll in a firework factory explosion in India has risen to 11 and the two owners have been arrested, police said on Wednesday, a day after the devastating blast. District police chief Sanjeev Kumar Kanchan confirmed 11 deaths, while more than 150 people were injured. The fiery blast sent chunks of rock and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/02\/071812413e694e1.jpg?r=181322","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}