{"id":55035,"date":"2014-10-21T10:11:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=55035"},"modified":"2014-10-21T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T07:11:08","slug":"17-killed-in-blast-in-fire-cracker-factory-in-india-55035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/17-killed-in-blast-in-fire-cracker-factory-in-india-55035\/","title":{"rendered":"17 killed in blast in fire cracker factory in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55036\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55036\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fire-Cracker-India-Nationalturk-21.jpg\" alt=\"Men preparing firecrackers in India. File Pic\" width=\"310\" height=\"204\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men preparing firecrackers in India. File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>14 women were among 17 people killed in a blast in fire cracker factory in India.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, Oct 21\/Nationalturk \u2013 At least 17 people, including 14 women, were killed in a blast in fire cracker factory in southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a blast took place in the firecracker factory in coastal East Godavari district&#8217;s Vakatippa village in southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire triggered several explosions. The building housing the factory was completely destroyed,\u201d police officials said adding it took firefighters over two hours to douse the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said 11 people, mostly women had died in the fire incident and 10 others had sustained burn injuries. \u201cSix of the injured people succumbed to injuries in the hospital today\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the death of six more persons, the death toll has risen to 17. Among the dead are 14 women,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<h2>Victims were working in factory<\/h2>\n<p>Officials said all the victims were workers in the factory, which was manufacturing firecrackers for the coming Hindu festival Diwali also called festival of lights. Hindus burn crackers and distribute sweets to celebrate the festival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were working in the factory when blast took place. We were thrown a huge distance,&#8221; said a man who sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The government has ordered an investigation into whether fire safety precautions had been ignored by the factory&#8217;s owner or not.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said that as per preliminary reports, the explosion was a result of a chemical reaction during the cracker manufacturing process. \u201cThere were also reports that a burning cigarette led to the fire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ascertaining the cause of the fire,\u201d they said adding if the manufacturing unit was found to be functioning illegally, strict action will be taken against its owner.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia News \/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 women were among 17 people killed in a blast in fire cracker factory in India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[19943,13432,49068,11979,37742,74332,42922,74331,74330,11774,49786,59862,2546,68553,74333],"class_list":["post-55035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-blast","tag-burn-injuries","tag-destroyed","tag-diwali","tag-east-godavari","tag-explosions","tag-factory","tag-fire-cracker","tag-firefighters","tag-flames","tag-hindu-festival","tag-india","tag-southern-india","tag-vakatippa-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}