February 26, 2021 09:10 pm | Updated 09:10 pm IST
Sivakasi
The
death toll in Thursday’s fireworks accident near Sivakasi increased to five with the death of one more worker on Friday.
The police have identified the deceased as V. Selvi (37), C. Jothi (55), R. Chandra (48), A. Lakshmi (50) and T. Ponnusamy (75).
Meanwhile, another accident was reported late on Thursday night at Baskara Fireworks in V. Chockalingapuram near here.
However, no one was injured in the accident were a working shed was razed to ground.
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