Kanpur: Six people, including a balloon seller and a 2-year-old girl, were injured when a carbide cylinder exploded before the burning of Ravan’s effigy at a fair in Dharipurwa under Naubasta police station on Tuesday night.The explosion caused chaos among thousands of people at the fair.Police took the injured to Atmaram Hospital. Balloon seller Ramu, who was seriously injured, was later referred to Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital. The others sustained minor injuries.Ramu, a Dharipurwa resident, had fixed the carbide cylinder in a divider while selling balloons. The cylinder exploded, throwing him into the air before he fell to the ground.Bablu Raghuvanshi, his 2-year-old daughter Riddhi, Kshama Dixit, Akash Rajput and Raju, who were standing nearby, were also injured. All six injured are residents of Dharipurwa.DCP South Deependra Nath Chaudhary, ACP Naubasta Abhishek Kumar Rahul and MLA Mahesh Trivedi visited the hospital, enquired about the injured and gathered information about the incident.
