4 buildings, together with three homes, a candle manufacturing facility, and a store, have been broken within the Kanchanpur market space in Tripura’s North Tripura district on Sunday evening after a hearth broke out following a cylinder blast, officers mentioned on Monday.
Chatting with indianexpress.com, Avinash Rai, Superintendent of Police, Unakoti district, mentioned the cylinder in one of many buildings exploded at round 10.50 pm on Sunday. The police and hearth tenders rushed to the spot and doused the fireplace though a neighborhood candle manufacturing facility and some close by homes had already been gutted.
“Injury estimates are nonetheless being completed and the individuals from the affected homes are staying at their family members’ houses for now. Nobody needed to be relocated to camps,” Rai, who has extra cost of North Tripura district, mentioned. Native sources revealed that the injury was price roughly Rs 15 lakh, including that the ultimate estimates may very well be larger.
The incident had sparked panic within the space because the blast got here amid incidents of communal violence at Kadamtala and Pekucherra within the North Tripura district over the previous couple of weeks that had seen prohibitory orders being clamped and web companies being suspended for days.
Additional investigation is happening however preliminary inputs recommend that there have been no ulterior motives behind the explosion.
