Delhi: Explosions triggered by a fire ripped through a plastic and firecracker factory in Delhi on Saturday evening, killing at least 17 workers in the capital’s worst blaze since the 1997 Uphaar cinema tragedy.
"Our firemen reported that the fire was in a firecracker factory at the basement, ground and first floors," chief fire officer Atul Garg said. "It was not a big fire. But explosions inside the factory resulted in the casualties."
The cause of the 6.40pm inferno is not yet known but a Delhi Fire Service official said the two-storey building, in north Delhi’s Bawana industrial area, had several unauthorised constructions that blocked the exit route.
Most of the 59 people who died in the Uphaar fire had perished in a stampede partly because the exitdoors were blocked, one of them by unauthorised extra seats.
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