Overview
- A powerful explosion tore through a room in Chandpur Mahila village in Jagatsinghpur district on Thursday and destroyed part of a house.
- Police confirmed two deaths, identified as Manoranjan Swain and his 22-year-old son Soumya Sahil, and said three other people were injured.
- Officers at the scene recovered multiple cooking gas cylinders, packets of firecrackers, a diesel generator and lighting equipment, and a district police scientific team and Fire Services are investigating.
- Two of the injured were moved from the district hospital to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack for critical care while another remains admitted locally.
- Authorities are probing whether the family’s sale or storage of firecrackers ahead of the festive season involved illegal manufacture or unsafe storage and say formal conclusions await forensic results.