The tragedy comes just two days after a massive explosion at a fireworks factory in Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar district left 23 people dead on Sunday. At 3.30 pm on Tuesday, two massive explosions, seconds apart, tore through a set of temporary sheds at the edge of a large field in Mundathicode, a village in central Thrissur. Workers inside the sheds had been assembling sample fireworks for Thrissur Pooram. The sample fireworks display they were preparing for was scheduled for Friday. By nightfall on Tuesday, officials at the district collectorate control room said 14 people were confirmed dead and several others were injured, of whom five were in critical condition. By the time darkness fell on Tuesday, the search in the field had shifted entirely from rescue to retrieval. The dead were being counted in pieces. Dozens of volunteers moved slowly through the one-and-a-half-acre field, carefully looking for human remains and collecting them. Several houses in the area had also suffered damage due to the impact of the blasts. Joshiy, who lives near the field, said …