At least 25 workers, most of them women, were killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state on Sunday, authorities said.
The blast tore through the factory near Kattanarpatti village in Virudhunagar at around 3.20pm. There were nearly 100 people on site at the Vanaja Fireworks unit when the explosion occurred. The workers were reportedly mixing chemicals, police said.
