Chennai: Taminadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit has expressed shock over the cracker factory mishap in Cuddalore district.
In a message, he said, “I offer my deep condolences to the families of those who are mourning the loss of their near and dear ones. I join the people of Tamilnadu in praying for the early and complete recovery of the injured admitted in hospitals.”
Nine were killed and many others sustained serious burns, in an explosion at a fire cracker manufacturing unit at Kurungudi near Kattumannarkovil in Cuddalore district Friday.
Sources said seven women, including the country-made cracker making unit owner Gandhimathi (57), were killed in the explosion and two women were being treated at the hospital.
Reports from Cuddalore said while five women were killed on the spot, two others succumbed to severe burns at the Kattumannarkovil Government Hospital, where the condition of two other women was said to be critical.
The impact of explosion was such that the cracker unit was completely razed to the ground. The concrete structure, including the roof and the walls, collapsed and everything was gutted.
The explosion was so severe that the limbs of the victims were severed.