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Fire Accident In West Bengal: Nine people were killed and several others injured in a blast at an illegal firecracker factory at Igra in East Medinipur district in West Bengal on Tuesday. Giving information about the incident, a police officer said that the explosion was so strong that the house in which the factory was running collapsed. At the same time, the villagers said that the whole scene looked like a ‘war zone’ and there were pieces of bodies of people lying all around and debris was scattered.
CID probe ordered
The state government has ordered a CID probe into the incident, while the BJP has demanded an NIA probe into the incident and has written a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah in this regard. CM Mamata Banerjee said that this illegal firecracker manufacturing unit was running in a house in a village near the West Bengal-Odisha border. Firecrackers made there were sent to Odisha. Local laborers used to work there.
BJP’s demand for NIA investigation
TMC chief Mamata Banerjee said that Rs 2.5 lakh each would be given to the next of kin of those who lost their lives in the incident and Rs one lakh each to the injured and the state government would bear the expenses of their treatment. On BJP’s demand for NIA probe, Banerjee said that we have no objection to it. This is the district of their leaders, so they have some formulas. Let the investigators find out.
Sacks of explosive material found in ‘secret chamber’
A police official said that sacks of explosive material were found from the ‘secret chamber’ in the demolished house. He said that preliminary investigation has found that all the five persons who lost their lives and all the seven injured in the incident were factory workers. The chief minister said action would be taken against the local police chief of Igra police station, as “he was not aware of the illegal firecracker manufacturing unit operating in the area”.
The owner of the manufacturing unit fled to Odisha
Banerjee said that the owner of this illegal firecracker manufacturing unit fled to Odisha after Tuesday’s blast. He said that the owner was arrested in October last year for running this factory. “I will ask the police to share his details with the Odisha police, so that he is arrested immediately,” she said. Trinamool Congress chief Banerjee claimed that the panchayat area where the blast took place was governed by a BJP-backed force. An independent leader does and Trinamool workers are not allowed to enter that village.
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