Seventeen people, mostly women and children, died in a blaze at a fireworks factory in central India, dpa cited police as saying Sunday. The fire broke out Saturday evening and the workers were trapped inside. Fifteen people died on the spot and two succumbed to injuries overnight in the hospital, local police official Ramesh Singh said. The fire raged for hours as firefighters battled to control it. The cause of the blaze was not clear, he said. The accident occurred in Badnagar town of Madhya Pradesh state.