Atleast 150 people were injured, including eight in serious condition, in a fireworks accident during a temple festival near Neeleswaram late Monday. The police officials said, ‘The injured were transported to various hospitals across Kasargod, Kannur, and Mangaluru’.
Preliminary investigations shows that the accident was triggered when a fireworks storage facility near the Veerarkavu Temple caught fire, around midnight. Senior district officials, including the district collector and police chief, are present at the scene. On Tuesday, the District Collector, said that those who were seriously injured had 80 % burns.
“The cause of the accident is being ascertained. Samples have been collected from the site. A case was lodged,” he said. District Collector said that according to a preliminary investigation, the fireworks storage facility and the place where the crackers were being burst were close by.
He added, “The safety precautions were not taken. The requirement of maintaining a minimum distance of 100 meters between the two was not followed. No permission was taken either for storage of fireworks”. According to the police, it is suspected that the accident occurred when the fireworks storage facility near Veerarkavu Temple caught fire.
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