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At least eight people were killed and 16 others injured, some of them critically, after a blast ripped through a firecracker factory on Wednesday in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
The blast occurred after raw materials used to make firecrackers suddenly caught fire at a factory in Kuruvimalai area of Kancheepuram district, about 80 km southwest of Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu.
"Today a blast took place at a firecracker factory in Kuruvimalai area, killing five people on the spot while three others succumbed at the hospital," an official from the local Kancheepuram collectorate office said.
According to officials, 13 of those injured were admitted to the Kancheepuram government hospital, while three were referred to two hospitals in Chennai.
The death toll was likely to increase as some of the injured were in critical condition, they said.
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