On June 22 just outside the office of the Dindigul Collector, a firecracker shop in Arunachalam Nagar in Dindigul in the state of Tamil Nadu, caught fire and at least one person lost their life in the raging fire.

As per reports, the fire broke out in the afternoon and the fire started to intensify after the fircrackers kept in the shop started bursting one after another. The police were informed and the Superintendent of Dindigul police reached the spot.

V Bhaskaran, the Superintendent of Dindigul Police described the incident and said, “Fire broke out at a firecracker shop opposite the Dindigul Collector’s Office. One person was killed in the incident.”