Implementation of guidelines could have averted Thrissur fireworks accident, experts say

The strict implementation of the information guidelines suggested by the judicial committee that probed the Puttingal fireworks mishap that killed 110 persons a decennary agone and different statutory agencies could person averted the accident, according to experts.

The Thrissur fireworks accident, which claimed 14 lives, occurred pursuing an detonation that reportedly took spot connected an unauthorised premises, which did not conform to the information standards prescribed for a manufacturing determination nether the Explosives Rules, according to R. Venugopal, erstwhile Joint Chief Controller of Explosives, Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation.