Madurai Explosion

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  Tamil Nadu Cracker Factory Owner Arrested After Blast Kills 5

  The Tamil Nadu police have arrested the owner of the firecracker factory where five people were killed in an explosion, in Madurai on Thursday. The factory owner's husband is on the run, the police informed.

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  PM Modi Was Among 22 Targets Of Arrested Al Qaeda Suspects

  Three people arrested on Monday in Madurai in Tamil Nadu were planning to attack 22 top political leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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  'Tiffin Bomb' Explodes Setting Afire Lorry In Madurai

  An Improvised Explosive Device, packed in a tiffin box, exploded on Vaigai river bank here setting ablaze a stationary lorry, police said today.

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  2 Low Intensity Explosions in Madurai Buses, Nobody Hurt

  Two low intensity explosions took place inside two government buses parked outside Madurai city on Wednesday night

• Madras High Court Orders Notice to Officials on Issue of Chinese Crackers

  The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court yesterday ordered issue of notice to Secretaries of Home, Industries and Commerce and Director of Explosives seeking their reply within four weeks on a petition praying for a direction to the Centre to impose conditions such as explosives license holders shall not sell Chinese fireworks.

• Explosion at cracker factory in Madurai kills four, injures 18

  Four people, including three women workers, died in an explosion at Anandam Fireworks, a cracker factory in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district yesterday. Eighteen other workers suffered injuries.

• Four killed in explosion in fireworks manufacturing factory near Madurai

  Four persons, including two women, were killed and 17 injured in a powerful explosion at a fireworks manufacturing factory at Vadakanpatti near Madurai this evening, police said.

• Three injured in an explosion in Madurai

  Three persons, including a woman, were injured when a box containing "some chemicals" exploded at the main road in Pethaniapuram in this city today, police said.

• Death toll in Tamil Nadu cracker factory explosion rises to six

  One more person succumbed to injuries at Madurai Rajaji government hospital today putting the death toll in the explosion at a cracker manufacturing unit near Sivakasi up to six, police said today.

• Three killed in explosion at fireworks unit in Tamil Nadu

  In the second fireworks unit mishap this month in Tamil Nadu, three men were killed in a blast in their factory at a remote village in Virudhunagar district, police said today.

• Former DMK minister files bail application

  Former DMK Minister I Periyasamy, arrested on June 4 on charges of illegal quarrying, filed a bail application on Thursday in the Madras High Court bench in Madurai in connection with the case against him in this regard.

• One killed, two injured in fireworks godown explosion

  A woman was killed and two others injured in an explosion at a fireworks godown in a village near Madurai on Saturday, police said. Electrical leakage was suspected to have caused the explosion at the godown in T Kallupatti, police said. The two injured have been hospitalised.

• Bomb found on Advani's yatra near Madurai

  A bomb weighing seven kgs was found on the outskirts of Madurai just an hour before senior BJP leader LK Advani was meant to travel over the bridge underneath which the Improvised Explosive Device was placed.

• 2 dead in explosion at train station in Madurai district

  Two people have died and 10 injured in an explosion at Sholavandan Railway station in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district.