A woman sustained minor injuries in a chemical blast at Manish Commercial Centre at Worli on Friday. The incident occurred in a lab, Spectrum Laboratories, which conducts COVID-19 tests in the building. A civic official said the blast was minor though the lab was damaged, but the windows of a building opposite it were also blown out.

As per the information given by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the liquid nitrogen exploded on the fifth floor of the six-storey commercial building at Century Bazar on Annie Besant Road at 9 am. The building has a passport office on the first and second floor and is also known as the old passport office. The false ceiling, cabins and parapet wall of the lab were damaged due to the blast. Officials said a woman in the lab sustained minor injuries.