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An explosion has rocked a temple in India’s southern Kerala
state on Sunday, killing 100 people with more than 380 persons injured.
The incident happened during a fireworks display to mark the start of the local Hindu new year.
Thousands of devotees had packed into the Puttingal Devi temple,
about 70 km from the state capital to watch the display that started at
midnight during.
Resident told Reuters that the blaze started when a cracker fell onto
a shed where the fireworks were stored, sparking a string of powerful
explosions that blew the roof of the administrative block of the temple
and caused another building to collapse.
“There were body parts on the floor and on the roof there was an
arm,” Anita Prakash, a resident said. “In the past, there’s been
fireworks but not on this scale.”
Kerala is studded with temples managed by rich and powerful trusts
that often flout local regulations. Each year temples hold fireworks
displays, often competing to stage the most spectacular ones, with
judges who decide the winners.
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