Morena (MP): Four persons, including three members of a family, were killed and six others injured after a house, where firecrackers were stored by a tenant, collapsed following a blast in Banmore town of Madhya Pradesh's Morena district on Thursday, a senior police official said.
The impact of the blast was so severe that the ground-plus-one-storey structure was reduced to rubble, while two nearby houses were damaged. The tenant's wife, their eight-year-old daughter, 18-year-old son and one more person died in the incident that occurred around 11 am, he said.
The cause of the blast is yet to be known, officials said.
"Four persons were killed and six others injured in the blast incident," IG Chambal Range Rajesh Chawla said.
Banmore police station in-charge Biresh Kushwaha said the house belonged to a man named Nirmal Chand Jain.
The first floor of the house was given on rent to Jameel Khan, who resided there with his family. He had stored large quantity of firecrackers in the house without permission, another official said.
"Around 11 am, a blast took place there. Its intensity was so severe that the entire structure collapsed and a few people got trapped under the debris," he said.
The deceased were identified as Jameel Khan's wife Anno Khan (35), their daughter Zoya and son Mehmood, he said, adding that one more person died in the incident. However, Jameel Khan survived as he jumped off the terrace immediately after the blast.