NEW DELHI, July 6 (NNN-UNI) – At least seven people were killed and four others injured, in an explosion at a factory in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday, a local district administration official said.
The mishap occurred in the Modi Nagar area of Ghaziabad district.
“Seven persons, including women, died and four persons severely injured in the incident. According to locals, around 20-25 persons were making party poppers in the factory, when the fire broke out,” Hindustan Times quoted Superintendent of Police, Neeraj Kumar Jadaun, as saying.
“We are trying to find the owner of the factory, and identification process of the dead is underway,” he said.
A local villager was quoted as saying, “There were no safety measures in place at the factory, and it didn’t have a license to operate.”– NNN-UNI
