At least 16 people were killed and many injured in a blast at an unauthorized firecracker factory in a residential in Batala town of Punjab’s Gurdaspur district on Wednesday, an official said.
Rescue workers were on the job to retrieve the bodies from the badly-damaged building, an official told IANS over phone.
The cause of the blast is yet to be ascertained, he added.-IANS news
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