Chandigarh, Oct. 30 -- A 27-year-old man was killed on Friday when a wall collapsed following explosions triggered by a fire at a firecracker storage facility linked to a local Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader in Punjab's industrial city of Ludhiana, police said.
The deceased, identified as Sahil Sabharwal, was a cousin of AAP leader Goldy Sabharwal, who runs a garment business in the densely populated Field Ganj locality, where the incident occurred.
Police said the fire broke out on the upper floor of a commercial building housing Pulkit Fashion, a garment establishment owned by the AAP leader. Firecrackers had been stored in a room adjoining a kitchen on the building's second floor.
As flames spread through the storage area, a series of e...