Two children were killed and another suffered severe injuries in a fire that broke out after a domestic gas cylinder explosion at a slum in Punjab's Bathinda in the early hours of Tuesday.
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) turned out to be the first responder after receiving a distress call from the fishing boat Durga Bhavani, which caught fire following a cooking gas cylinder explosion in the Bay of Bengal on Friday afternoon, officials said on Saturday.
A mother and her three children, including an 11-month-old child, died in the Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday morning due to a gas cylinder explosion, an official said.
According to the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) they recieved information from Sonprayag police station that a fire broke out in a hotel's canteen in Gaurikund due to explosion of a gas cylinder and that SDRF team is required for relief and rescue operations.
According to the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), "Late night yesterday we received information from the Sonprayag police station that a fire broke out in a hotel's canteen in Gaurikund due to explosion of a gas cylinder and that SDRF team is required for relief and rescue operations."
The death toll in the gas cylinder explosion that took in Sukkur city of Sindh province in Pakistan has risen to eight now, reported ARY News on Monday.
Atleast six people died and 10 others were injured after a three-storey building collapsed due to a gas cylinder explosion on the Grand Trunk Road in Jhelum on Sunday, Dawn reported.