A massive fire broke out inside the firecracker factory in Harda district on Tuesday morning in which 11 persons were killed and around 174 others sustained injuries.
Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed grief over the Harda firecracker factory blast incident and postponed his wall writing programme for Tuesday.
The death toll in the massive fire that broke out inside a firecracker factory in Madhya Pradesh's Harda district on Tuesday morning has risen to 11 with around 174 injured, an official said.
The firefighting operations continued till Tuesday evening after a massive fire broke out at a firecracker factory in Madhya Pradesh's Harda district in the morning leaving eleven dead and around 150 others sustained injuries.
Firefighting operations continued on Wednesday afternoon after the blaze broke out at around 11:30 am at the factory on Magardha Road in Bairagarh village.
The chief minister also announced that Rs 4 lakh will be provided as ex-gratia to the families of the deceased and the injured will be given free treatment.
A day after the massive fire incident at a factory in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district that left five people dead, Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri visited the spot on Saturday to take stock of the situation and assess the relief measures.
"We arrested the plant manager last night and he admitted that around 85 people were inside the building (at the time of the incident). One woman died, 30 people are in the hospital and 13 were missing, of whom four have been found. So only nine people are missing now and operations to trace
The deceased have been identified as Rakesh Gupta (62), his daughter Shweta (30) and wife Renu Gupta (62), Santosh (25), Kirti (25) and Shanu Verma (27).