East Singhbhum Senior SP, Anoop T Mathew on Tuesday suspended OC, Barsole Police Station, Binod Kumar Paswan over the Kumardubi village fire mishap that took place at Baharagora block in the Ghatshila sub-division on Sunday.
The mishap took place as crackers were being manufactured at that village in an unauthorised manner. Meanwhile, Kolhan commissioner, Braj Mohan Kumar and DIG (Kolhan) Saket Kumar Singh today inspected the spot of fire mishap at Kumardubi as had been instructed by Chief Secretary, Rajbala Verma on Monday.
The team that included MlA Kunal Sarangi, Rural SP Prabhat Kumar SDO Arvind Kumar lal visited to the site and spoke to the kins of victims.
A team member said the investigation into the mishap is on and four bodies were found under the debris which was removed by pressing a heavy duty crane. He said four of the victims died after coming under the debris while the rest five died of burn injuries.
The tragedy struck when some persons were manufacturing crackers at the second floor of a three-storeyed building. The fire incident took place because of mishandling of explosive materials while manufacturing crackers. As the fire spread, an lPG cylinder which was kept on the same floor blown off
The house where the crackers were being made belonged to one Durga Patar Santra, who was also partially burnt in the mishap. He said three members of Santra's family were killed in the mishap.