Thrissur fireworks accident: Kerala Cabinet orders judicial inquiry, ₹14-lakh aid to families of deceased

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Fire and Rescue Services unit and volunteers cod quality remains from the tract of the fireworks portion blast astatine Mundathikode successful Thrissur connected Wednesday, a time aft the explosion. | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat

The Kerala Cabinet connected Wednesday (April 22, 2026) directed the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) to state the blast astatine a fireworks portion astatine Mundathikode successful Thrissur arsenic a State-specific disaster. A judicial enquiry has besides been ordered into the circumstances that led to the blast. Justice C.N. Ramachandran Nair, a single-member judicial commission, is successful complaint of the inquiry.

An exigency fiscal assistance of ₹14 lakh volition beryllium provided to the families of the deceased, including ₹4 lakh from the State Disaster Response Fund and ₹10 lakh from the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF). At slightest 14 radical person died successful the blast. The injured volition beryllium allocated the magnitude allowed nether the Disaster Response Fund and successful summation ₹2 lakh volition beryllium provided arsenic exigency fiscal assistance from CMDRF.

Published - April 22, 2026 12:05 p.m. IST

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