MORENA (MP): Four persons, including a mother-daughter duo, were killed and six others injured after a house, where firecrackers were stored by a tenant, collapsed following a blast in Banmore town of Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district on Thursday, police said.
The impact of the blast was so severe that the ground-plus-one-storey structure was reduced to rubble, while two nearby houses were also damaged. The tenant’s wife, their eight-year-old daughter and two more persons, including a seven-year-old boy, died in the incident that occurred around 11am, they said.
Although the blast prima facie occurred due to crackers, its exact cause is being investigated, the officials said.
Banmore police station in-charge Biresh Kushwaha said the first floor of the house was given on rent to Jameel Khan. Senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath demanded a probe into the incident.
The impact of the blast was so severe that the ground-plus-one-storey structure was reduced to rubble, while two nearby houses were also damaged. The tenant’s wife, their eight-year-old daughter and two more persons, including a seven-year-old boy, died in the incident that occurred around 11am, they said.
Although the blast prima facie occurred due to crackers, its exact cause is being investigated, the officials said.
Banmore police station in-charge Biresh Kushwaha said the first floor of the house was given on rent to Jameel Khan. Senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath demanded a probe into the incident.