At least six people died and eight others were injured this Friday after a fire in a sparkler candle factory in a city in western India, official sources confirmed.

“According to preliminary information, there are six dead and some with minor or serious injuries have been admitted to hospital. This was a birthday sparkler candle factory.“Commissioner Shekhar Singh, the municipal authority of Pimpri-Chinchwad, in the state of Maharashtra, said in a statement to the press from the scene of the accident.

According to the Indian news agency PTI, at least eight people were taken to hospitals with injuries. Authorities have not offered details of the causes of the fire.

Local media broadcast images of the factory after the fire, a house with a few pieces of furniture and small windows. The space is full of flare boxes now charred by flames.

Fires and other similar accidents are frequent in India, often due to the precarious state of infrastructure and lack of maintenancefactors fueled by corruption and illegal practices.

According to official data, in 2021 they were registered in India 8,491 accidental fires in government buildings, schools, residences and other places, more than a hundred of them in factories. 8,348 people died in these accidents.