Thousands of fireworks exploded in a deadly blaze at a market square in India and the shocking scene was captured in this video.
The terraced store-front was engulfed in flames as fireworks exploded in chaotic, quick succession, forcing thick clouds of smoke high into the air in Odisha.
People fled the scene as the violent explosions spread raging fire from one shop to the next along the market square.
Thousands of fireworks zipped through the air in flashes of deadly light, while plumes of dense smoke engulfed the area and rose into the sky, muddying the sunlight.
According to local man Mohsin Khan, 30, the horrific explosion killed one person and left at least three people injured on Sunday, October 15.
Diwali is the Indian festival of light which is celebrated every Autumn to welcome the victory of light over darkness and good over evil.
People often mark the occasion with fireworks, so many shops had stocked up on the explosives ahead of the festival.
Just three days later on October 18, another deadly firework explosion burnt at least eight people to death, including a child, and injured nine others in the same state in eastern India.
Thousands of fireworks exploded in a deadly blaze at a market square in India on October 15
The terraced store-front was engulfed in flames as fireworks exploded in chaotic, quick succession, forcing thick clouds of smoke high into the air in Odisha
Thousands of fireworks zipped through the air in flashes of deadly light, while plumes of dense smoke engulfed the area and rose into the sky, muddying the sunlight
The Hindustan Times reports that this fire engulfed an illegally run firecracker manufacturing unit in Odisha’s Balasore district.
Two more children were killed in firecracker accidents across the state last week.
A youngster sleeping in a firecracker shop died in a blaze in the city Rourkela, which gutted more than 50 shops in a market.
And a six-year-old girl died and five other people sustained critical burn injuries while making firecrackers in a house in Puri.