(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) New Delhi Dhu-AlQa'dah 29 1436 September 13 2015 SPA -- Police have launched a manhunt for a shop owner who
they say illegally stored mining explosives that set off a series of
blasts that killed 88 people in central India over the weekend
officials said Sunday according to dpa.
The Saturday explosions at a restaurant in the town of Petlawad in
Madhya Pradesh state were caused after gelatine sticks in an
adjoining shop caught fire - not by a cooking gas cylinder blast as
initially claimed by the police.
"Investigations show that a fire from an electric short circuit set
off powerful explosions of the gelatine sticks" district police
officer Sima Alawa said over phone.
--SPA
13:52 LOCAL TIME 10:52 GMT
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