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Over 100 people have been killed and 200 more injured in massive fire at Hindu temple in India during fireworks display
- [DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Huge fire broke out during fireworks display at Puttingal temple in Kerala
- Hindu festival was taking place in Indian state when explosion took place
- Believed a firework may have landed in storage area filled with firecrackers
- Local official said around 102 people died, with more than 200 injured
'I stayed for a while with an old man near Umballa; anon with a household of my acquaintance in Umballa. With one of these I went as far as Delhi to the southward. That is a wondrous city. Then I drove a bullock for a teli [an oilman] coming north; but I heard of a great feast forward in Patiala, and thither went I in the company of a firework-maker. It was a great feast' (Kim rubbed his stomach). 'I saw Rajahs, and elephants with gold and silver trappings; and they lit all the fireworks at once, whereby eleven men were killed, my fire-work-maker among them, and I was blown across a tent but took no harm. Then I came back to the rel with a Sikh horseman, to whom I was groom for my bread; and so here.'
'Shabash!' said Mahbub Ali.
--Kipling, Kim
Posted by: Fred 2016-04-11 |
