AlQa'dah 29, 1436, September 13, 2015, SPA -- Police have launched a manhunt for a shop owner who they say illegally stored mining explosives that set off a series of blasts that killed 88 people in central India over the weekend, officials said Sunday, according to dpa. The Saturday explosions at a restaurant in the town of Petlawad in Madhya Pradesh state were caused after gelatine sticks in an adjoining shop caught fire - not by a cooking gas cylinder blast as initially claimed by the police. "Investigations show that a fire from an electric short circuit set off powerful explosions of the gelatine sticks," district police officer Sima Alawa said over phone.
