February 7, 2024: Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) on Wednesday continued to remove the debris after a massive fire broke out inside a firecracker factory in Madhya Pradesh's Harda on Tuesday, which resulted in the death of 11 people and over 170 injured.
Meanwhile, two people have been arrested in connection with the firecracker factory blast incident. The arrested people have been identified as Rajesh Aggarwal and Somesh Aggarwal.
Harda Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Kanchan said that they are questioning one more person in connection to the blast incident.
The blast occurred after the fire that broke out inside a firecracker factory in the Bairagarh area of Harda on Tuesday morning. Due to the massive explosion, the entire area was engulfed in black smoke. Dozens of houses located nearby were gutted in the fire. Several vehicles were also caught fire in the explosions.
