Twelve persons were arrested today in connection with the gruesome tragedy at a fireworks manufacturing unit near here that claimed atlleast 38 lives, even as government ordered a magisterial probe into the mishap and officials indulged in a blame-game. As a hunt was launched to nab the factory owner, a top police official said several violations of safety norms like overcrowding, overstocking and wrong mixing of chemicals, had been found, leading to one of the worst mishaps yesterday in Sivakasi, hub of the country's cracker industry. Five persons who had taken the Omshakthi fireworks factory complex, the scene of the tragedy, on lease, its foreman, three supervisors and three accountants had been arrested RPT had been arrested, police said.

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