UP: 6 killed in gas cylinder blast in Azamgarh

Varanasi | Monday | 11th June, 2018

Summary:

In the afternoon, a cylinder caught fire.Before people busy in cooking food could control it, the cylinder exploded. On getting information fire fighters reached there and doused the blaze.However, they could not save the people inside the room. Ramtaji (70), Kavita (50), Manita (35), her daughter Aradhya (1), Tara Devi (50) and Anjali (4) died due to suffocation. It led to chaos at the incident site and people started running for shelter.A group of women and children entered a room, where husk had been stored. As the room had a single point for entry and exit, they could not come out as the wooden doors also had caught fire..