Bengal Cracker Unit Blast Kills 5, Sparks BJP vs Trinamool Before Key Polls
NDTV
Mamata Banerjee has clarified the incident occurred at an illegal cracker unit and there's no law and order situation.
Five people died and seven others were injured in an explosion at an illegal firecracker manufacturing factory in West Bengal on Tuesday. Is TMC manufacturing bombs at large scale to scare the people before the Panchayat election?Failure CM @MamataOfficial must answer. Request @AmitShah ji to take cognisance of this incident and investigate this matter. Public has zero trust on TMC govt.
The blast was of such an intensity that the factory collapsed with bodies seen strewn around the compound. The incident also prompted a political blame game between the opposition BJP and the ruling Trinamool.
Angry locals attacked the cops who went to investigate the incident in Purba Medinipur's Egra. The owner of the factory, located near the Odisha border, has escaped to the neighbouring state, police said.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the man who was running the illegal cracker factory was earlier arrested by the police and charged for it. "But he started again after he was granted bail," she said.
