JAKARTA - One person was killed in a house in Tambakrejo Village, Semarang City, Central Java, early Friday, allegedly due to a firecracker explosion.
The head of RW 9 Tambakrejo Ahmad Rifai said the explosion occurred at the house of one of the residents with the initials R which occurred around 01.00 WIB.
One victim, he said, was an initials GSP (9) who was allegedly killed by the explosion.
He explained that the accident was known after a loud explosion was heard from R's house.
"When the residents checked, the condition inside the house was destroyed," he said, quoted by ANTARA, Friday, March 20.
He said residents then searched for the occupants of the house, which numbered five people.
"The victim was found last under the dining table already dead," he added.
From the information obtained, according to him, the explosion was allegedly caused by fireworks stored under a rice cooker.
He added that various fireworks materials purchased online were used during the night-time keliling takbir.
After the incident, the officers who received the report had set up a police line around the scene of the incident.
In addition, a number of Brimob personnel were also alerted around the scene of the incident.
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