Updated at: 1100 PST, Thursday, October 23, 2008
JAIPUR: Police say 18 people; including 10 children have been killed in an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory in western India.Area police chief Rohit Mahajan says the blast early Thursday occurred in a workshop set up in a home in a slum in the town of Deeg. Mahajan says the huge explosion brought down two neighboring homes, leading to the high death toll.
Deeg is some 120 miles (192 kilometers) northwest of Jaipur, the capital of India's Rajasthan state.
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