(Tamil
Nadu, India) -- Five persons, including a woman, were killed and six
others injured when gelatine sticks exploded accidentally at a stone quarry
near here today, police said.
The five were fixing the gelatine sticks to blast rocks at
the licenced quarry in Muddur, 25 km from here, when all of a sudden one of
them slipped and fell down, accidentally triggering the fuse of the explosives,
they.
The five were killed on the spot. The six others injured
were rushed to Chengalpattu Medical College Hospital, police said, adding that
it was a case of accident.
District Collector Santhosh K Misra has ordered an inquiry
by revenue department into the blast.
SOURCE: www.ptinews.com