India, Oct. 24 -- Among the five dead so far in the explosion at a house where a firecracker manufacturing unit was running in Alampur village in Bihar's Siwan district is the house owner, Amiruddin Ahmad, along with his three grandchildren, including two minors, police said on Saturday morning.

70-year-old Amiruddin was in the business of firecracker sales and manufacturing for many decades, and the police are now probing whether he was running the unit with valid papers.

Apart from the house owner, those who died were identified as his granddaughter Muskan Siddiqui (20), Khusboo Siddiqui (10), grandson Arshad Siddiqui (8) and Rajkumar alias Bhola (35), Siwan Superintendent of Police Bharat Soni said. Police said Amiruddin's son Marham...