Date:01/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/01/stories/2008050152840300.htm

Andhra Pradesh

15 of marriage party suffer burns

VIZIANAGARAM: Fifteen persons of a marriage party that was travelling by a tractor from Regati to Neeladriuram village in Garividi mandal late on Tuesday night suffered burns when crackers stacked in the vehicle caught fire after a lighted ‘tarajuvva’ fell on it.

Six of the seriously injured were admitted to K.G. Hospital in Visakhapatnam, five in district headquarters hospital here and others were treated as outpatients, according to the Garividi police.