Labourer killed, boy hurt in cracker factory blast

KARNAL: A labourer was killed and a boy hurt in a blast at a cracker factory at village of Karnal on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Vinod Kumar, 44, a migrant labourer from Bihar, and the injured as Prateek Kumar, 14, of Kunjpura village.

The explosion took place around 6:15pm when the labourers were cleaning the factory’s godown. The impact of the blast was so severe that two rooms of the factory collapsed.