India temple fire: 105 killed in fireworks disaster
Source: cnn
Kollam, India (CNN)The disaster came too quickly for Bhadran to understand what had just happened.
One moment, he and two friends were celebrating at a local temple festival in the southern Indian city of Kollam. Minutes later, his two friends were dead.
"I did not know what happened," said the 62-year-old, who gave only one name. "There was a huge fireball, and it was all over in five minutes. Once I reached the ground, there were dead bodies all around."
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Officials said a fireworks display exploded during the temple festival. Sparks from the display ignited a magazine of fireworks, causing a larger blaze, local police official K. Laljy said.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/10/asia/india-temple-fire/
Warpy
(111,261 posts)The first part of this is a little blurry, but shows how horrific it was.
WhiteTara
(29,715 posts)for them to keep exploding for so long. That is quite the video. Thanks for posting.
truthisfreedom
(23,147 posts)I can't watch that many people die.
RAAVAN
(31 posts)A bad day in the history of India which keeps on piling, despite the attempt of the Supreme Court to not allow the firecrackers after time , but what now everybody gets a lesson to learn from this tragedy , now people will use crackers moderately or not all.