Hyderabad: Seven persons, including two girls were injured when fire crackers exploded in a house at Chaknawadi area here on October 23 night, police said on October 24.

The explosion took place in the house of one Shankar when the family members were manufacturing crackers, police said.

All the injured were admitted to nearby Osmania General Hospital were condition of a girl was stated to be critical, police said.

On October 23, 12 persons, including a woman, were killed and 18 others sustained burn injuries in a major fire that broke out in a cracker shop-cum-godown and engulfed a lodge in the building in the busy Begumbazar area here.

PTI