3 dead, 1 injured in explosion while illegally making crackers
PTI | 10:10 PM,Oct 23,2010Kanpur, Oct 23 (PTI) Three persons, including a woman, were killed today and another was critically injured in an explosion while illegally manufacturing crackers in a house in Naurangabad area here, police said. Pappu (45) and his son Babu (18) were killed in the explosion caused when they were illegally making the crackers in the house of one Ajay Kashyap who was not present there at the time of the incident, SP (Rural) Lal Bahadur said. The owner's wife Geeta (40) was also killed while Pappu's other son Nasir (20) was seriously injured and admitted in a hospital, he said.The bodies have been sent for post-mortem, the SP said, adding, a search is on for the owner of the house who was involved in manufacturing crackers without obtaining a license.
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