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LUCKNOW The police on Thursday arrested the main accused in the illegal cracker factory blast case in Bareillys Sirauli area even as the bodies of two kids, aged three and five, were pulled from the rubble of the unit, taking the death toll to six in the incident..
SSP (Bareilly) Anurag Arya confirmed the death of six people identified as Tabassum, 28, and her two children - Hasan Wateen ,5, and Shahzad, 3, Hasnains wife Nikhat, 30, prime accused Nasirs wife Sitara Begum, 38. and one Ruksana, 38, who stayed in a house adjoining Rahman Shahs house where the blast took place around 4.30pm on Wednesday..
Arya informed that an FIR under appropriate sections of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and Explosives Act and Explosive Substances Act was registered against seven people, including Rahman Shah, his son Wahid, daughter Fatimas husband Nazim and his four brothers including one Nasir, who had been the license holder of the cracker manufacturing unit in the past, Ahmad Miyan, Mohd Miyan and Hasnain Shah..
The SSP said Nasir shifted to Rahman Shahs house and stored around one quintal gunpowder and other raw material used in cracker manufacturing on the second and third floors of the house, after his licence was cancelled following a fire incident at his house in Sirauli area on September 21. ..
Rahman Shahs family stayed on the ground floor and the first floor of the house in Kalyanpur village under Sirauli police station limits while two other floors were used as godowns of illegal cracker manufacturing unit..
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