Chennai, June 21 -- One worker was killed and more than 25 others sustained injuries when an explosion occurred in a private cracker manufcturing unit at Masarpatti village in Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu last evening.

Being a wceekend, more than 50 workers were in the factory with some of them engaged in collecting their weekly salaries, while some others were making crackers.

Suddenly the crakers stored in a one of the rooms exploded killing one worker on the spotm while 25 others were injured.

Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from United News of India....