The incident occurred late on the evening of Diwali. While attempting to set off a firecracker, the boy covered it with a glass; the resulting powerful explosion shattered the glass, and a fragment struck 11-year-old Abhas Kashyap in the chest.
He sustained severe injuries in the blast. His family rushed him to a medical college for treatment, where doctors declared him dead. In an instant, the family’s Diwali celebrations turned into mourning. Abhas Kashyap, a resident of Samdaha village under the Sarai Khwaja police station area and son of the late Rajesh Kashyap, was lighting firecrackers near his home when the incident took place.
Shortly after he lit the firecracker, a loud explosion occurred. The glass shattered, and a piece pierced Abhas’s chest, leaving him severely injured and causing him to collapse on the spot. Hearing the blast, people from the neighborhood rushed to the scene, and the family was thrown into a state of panic. They immediately took the injured boy to a medical college.
Upon examination, doctors declared him dead. The news of the child’s death plunged the family into deep grief. The home, which had been filled with festive preparations for Diwali, was suddenly overcome with cries and wailing.
Abhas was the eldest of three brothers. His father, Rajesh Kashyap, had passed away previously, and his mother, Pratibha Kashyap, had been raising the children alone. The mother is inconsolable, and the rest of the family remains devastated, unable to hold back their tears. The untimely death of the innocent child has cast a pall of grief over the village.
