At least 50 people were killed after a building housing licensed explosives blew up in central India on Saturday, police said.
The building in Madhya Pradesh state’s Jhabua district was partly commercial and partly residential, police superintendent G.G. Pandey said.
A tenant was storing licensed explosives, according to the police. A fire may have triggered the blast, but an inquiry has been ordered to determine the exact cause, Pandey said.
Some of the dead included customers at an adjacent restaurant. The impact of the blast was also felt across the road, where a few other houses also suffered damage, police said.
More than 40 people were injured in the explosion, Pandey said.
