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At least 25 people died after a fire broke out in a firecracker factory at Bhatan village in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district on Wednesday afternoon. > Madhya Pradesh chief minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced > compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the next of kin of those who died in > the fire. The blaze started around 3 pm in the factory located around 10
kilometres from the district headquarters in the Kotwali police station limits. Earlier, the district collector Bharat Yadav had said that a couple of people are still feared to be trapped
under the debris. Yadav also said that the victims were workers at the factory and the incident took place while work was on. The cracker factory is owned by Warish Ahmed. > What exactly
triggered the fire is not yet known. It is possible > that someone might have thrown a burning beedi. Safety measures > taken or not, how much explosive were they allowed to keep, all
are > issues of investigation. Bharat Yadav, District Collector The fire has been doused, he said, adding the factory was located away from human settlement. _(With inputs from ANI and
PTI)_ Published: 07 Jun 2017, 7:52 PM IST