Fire accident death toll at three

SIVAKASI

The death toll in Friday’s fire accident at a fireworks unit at O. Kovilpatti under Amathur police station limits in Virudhunagar district has increased to three with the death of a worker here on Sunday.

The police said Irulappan, who was under treatment at Sivakasi Government Hospital, succumbed to his injuries on Sunday evening.

The police said Murugan and Chandran died on the spot. Some body parts, suspected to be of another worker, were also found at the accident site. While the police claimed that the samples of the body parts had been sent for DNA test to identify the deceased, wife of Balamurugan, who is feared to have been killed in the fire accident, lodged a complaint that her husband was missing.

She claimed that Balamurugan was at the accident site for work but he was missing from the unit after the accident.