Overview
- A blast ripped through a first-floor illegal firecracker manufacturing unit in Amritsar, killing one woman and critically injuring another according to police.
- The dead woman has been identified by authorities as Suman and the injured person as Gurpreet, who remains in critical condition in hospital.
- Officers say the house belongs to an alleged operator named Ashok Kumar and an FIR has been registered as forensic teams inspect the scene.
- Rescue crews and two fire tenders brought the blaze under control after about a 30-minute fight, and seven to eight people who were inside mostly escaped unhurt following Thursday’s explosion.
- Local officials and reporting note a pattern of small unregulated firecracker units being run from homes and shifted after enforcement pressure, which concentrates explosive material in populated areas and could prompt stricter local inspections and prosecutions.