Hyderabad, Oct. 10 -- The death toll in the devastating explosion at a firecracker manufacturing unit at Rayavaram in Andhra Pradesh's Dr BR Ambedkar Konaseema district on Wednesday mounted to eight, even as the state government on Thursday constituted a two-member official committee to investigate the causes of the explosion.

State chief secretary K Vijayanand issued an order constituting a committee comprising S Suresh Kumar, principal secretary, municipal administration and urban development department and Ake Ravi Krishna, inspector general of police, Elite Anti-Narcotics Group for Law Enforcement (EAGLE).

According to the government order, the committee would find out the causes which resulted in the explosion in the firecracker ma...