Father killed, son critical in illegal cracker unit explosion

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KalingaTV News Network

Puri: An elderly man was killed and his son sustained grievous burn injury in a fire cracker explosion which occurred in Pindol village under Gop block in the district on Tuesday.

The deceased has been identified as Ranjit Biswal.

Ranjit, who ran an illegal cracker manufacturing unit inside a half-constructed room at the first floor of his house, was busy in work along with his son Bapi in the morning when the mishap took place. Crackers kept at the unit suddenly went off causing a massive fire at the spot. The intensity of the blast was so high that it even blew off the roof of the house completely leaving the duo critical on the spot.

The injured father-son duo was rushed to Charichhak CHC immediately by their family members. While Ranjit died in the hospital under treatment due to burn injury, Bapi was shifted to SCB Hospital in Cuttack.

Gop Police reached the spot and lodged a case in the incident after sending body for postmortem.

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