20211104 Jaipur: Firecrackers shop gutted, one dies in blaze
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Jaipur: Firecrackers shop gutted, one dies in blaze
Updated: 2021-11-04
JAIPUR: A 20-year-old man was killed after an electric malfunction triggered a major fire inside a shop selling firecrackers in Dausa’s Barkat statue road Wednesday afternoon.
According to Kotwali SHO Lal Singh, the victim was idenitfied as one Ashok. “There is a dental clinic above the firecrackers shop. Ashok was working outside the clinic to put an electric board when a malfunction took place and triggered a fire,” Singh said, adding that flames soon engulfed the firecrackers shop.
The fire quickly tore through the shop, setting off a wave of panic as huge explosions rang out in quick successions. Firecrackers exploded one after the another, some even flying out on the shop and landing on the road outside. Huge flames began to tower over the building and a thick plume of smoke enveloped the area by the time fire tenders arrived.
One vehicle was reported to have charred in the fire. Several fire tenders were summoned to contain flames before they could engulf nearby shops. Police said that the firecracker shop was completely destroyed in the blaze.
Web Source: The Times of India