V Kalainesan, 37, a resident of Ariyankuppam town in Puducherry, was riding with his son on their Yamaha scooter from Koonimedu village in Tamil Nadu towards Puducherry, when the firecrackers went off.
A man and his seven-year-old son were killed on the spot when a bagful of firecrackers they were carrying on their two-wheeler accidentally exploded.
The deadly explosion on Diwali took place at 1.35pm near Chinna Kottakuppam, between Puducherry and Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram district.
V Kalainesan, 37, a resident of Ariyankuppam town in Puducherry, was returning with his son on their Yamaha scooter from Koonimedu village in Tamil Nadu, when the pack of firecrackers accidentally went off.
CCTV visuals purportedly showing the accident were circulating on Friday.
“Three other [men] who were nearby were injured, but they are out of danger,” said Villupuram’s superintendent of police, N Shreenatha.
They were being treated at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Puducherry for injuries.
A police officer, who recalled the episode, said Kalainesan had picked up two bags of country-made firecrackers from Puducherry on Wednesday and kept them at his mother-in-law’s place in Koonimedu. On Thursday, the father-son duo loaded one of the bags onto their scooter and was heading back towards Puducherry when the firecrackers exploded on way.
