CANPUR DEPOSIT: No lessons learned from previous incidents, explosion occurs -Kanpur illegal fire worker explosion safety awareness explosion takes place

Remove Ad Read Only News Updated: Do, 09 Oct 2025 09:04 am (IST) There was an explosion on Meston Road for the illegal storage of fireworks in front of Diwali in Kanpur. Police have not learned lessons from incidents in the past. Such accidents also occurred in Sisamau in 2024 and Naubasta in 2019, in which many lives were lost. Police covered the cases by mentioning the leakage of the cylinder as the reason, while reality was something else. A large number of fireworks were fired from the store in Meston Road Mishri Bazaar before the explosion. Jagran Jagran correspondent, Kanpur. As the festival of Diwali approaches, the game begins to store illegal fireworks in the city and keep in mind safety standards. This is not the first incident of explosion due to illegal storage. Even before that, people lost their lives due to explosions, but police learned no lesson from such incidents and two days before the Karva Chauth festival, a blast near Mishri Bazar turn took place from Meston Road. The lucky thing was that the fireworks market has not yet been set up. Remove ads only read news if the market was arranged, the accident might have been greater. However, top police officers did not allow anything clear about the explosion. Said, investigation is underway. Due to the illegal storage of fireworks in the city, there was an explosion in Gandhi Nagar of the Sisamau police station in October 2024, in which a couple died. To date, it was not decided why the explosion took place. The couple returned home on their moped. It was then alleged that this incident occurred as a result of explosion in the smaller cylinder. While questions were raised as no remnants of the small cylinder were found on the spot. Also read the explosion update of Kanpur: Injuries of those injured in Meston Bazaar explosion are serious, are unable to talk, hear and see. In October 2019, in front of Diwali, two people were also injured in an explosion in Dwivedi Nagar of Naubasta. To escape from the police a few years ago, illegal fireworks in Kalyanpur CHC were stored, in which many people were injured due to the explosion. Here, some people were also injured due to the explosion in Nehru Nagar of the Nazirabad police station. It is believed that all these incidents are related to the storage of illegal fireworks, but besides the explosion in Kalyanpur’s CHC, police have covered the case by quoting other reasons in all the incidents. In most of these cases, police said the real reason for the explosion was due to fire in a leaking cylinder. While the story of eyewitnesses tells something different.