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FIREWORKS EXPLOSION
16 KILLED AND SCORES INJURED SECOND DISASTER IN FEW MONTHS (U.P.A. by E|cc. Tel. Copyright) (Received April S. 5.5 ,p.m.) CALCUTTA, April 7. Sixteen persons were killed and scores injured in an explosion at. a small fireworks factory at Bombay. All the workers are dead or were maimed, and members of a colony of potters in which the factory was situated were injured by boulders dis lodged from a rocky lr’lEidc by the explosion. The victims included five boys, two women, and one girl. . . This is the second similar accident in the same district, the InPt being in October, when eleven were Idled aucl six injured!
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12254, 9 April 1935, Page 5
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