India News | 15-year-old Girl Dead, 5 Hurt in Fire Caused by Cylinder Blast
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A 15-year-old girl died and five others, including an eight-year-old boy, were injured in a fire that erupted after a gas cylinder blast in a 'chawl' here on Tuesday night, civic officials said.
Mumbai, Nov 24 (PTI) A 15-year-old girl died and five others, including an eight-year-old boy, were injured in a fire that erupted after a gas cylinder blast in a 'chawl' here on Tuesday night, civic officials said.
The cylinder blast occurred at the 'chawl' (old style tenements) located in the Jarimari area of suburban Sakinaka around 9.30 pm, they said.
According to the officials, four children and two women were injured in the fire triggered by the blast.
All of them were rushed to Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar, where one of the injured, a 15-year-old girl identified as Almas, was declared 'brought dead' by doctors, they said.
The five injured include three children, among them an eight-year-old boy, and two women, one of them aged 60, they said.
A civic official said it was not clear if all the six were from a single family.
They said the fire triggered in the chawl after the cylinder blast was doused around 9.55 pm.
According to the officials, the exact cause of the cylinder blast was yet to be ascertained.
(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)