Indian fireworks blaze kills 23

Tens of workers are killed and scores are injured in a blaze at a fireworks factory in western India, the country's emergency services says. Fire broke out on Friday afternoon at the Savitri Fireworks Factory in Parola, west of the town of Jalgaon in the Maharashtra state, some 465 kilometers northwest of Mumbai, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 50 others. No immediate cause was given for the fire. An explosion at an illegal fireworks factory in northern India in October of last year had also killed at least 23 people, 10 of them children. A month earlier in September 2008, five children and three adults died after a house exploded where firecrackers were being made for the Hindu 'festival of lights' -- Diwali.