Palghar (Maharashtra), April 22 -- A worker was killed and five others were seriously injured after an explosion ripped through a firecracker factory in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Tuesday, police said. Two persons were arrested in connection with the incident, said an official. Earlier, the administration had put the death toll at two, but a corrected statement in the evening said a male worker died while a woman with 80% burns was undergoing treatment. The explosion took place around 12pm on Tuesday at the unit operating out of a tin shed inside an old farmhouse at Konsai village of Wada taluka, said Vivekanand Kadam, chief of the civic disaster management cell. "The explosion took place when a chemical mixing process was underway, killing one worker on the spot," an official from Wada police station said. The injured woman was later shifted to a Mumbai hospital.pti...