According to preliminary information, the incident was reported at around 9.25 am on January 27 to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB)
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Seven people, including a two-year-old child, were injured in a fire after a gas cylinder explosion caused by a suspected leakage was reported in a chawl near Malvani Gate No. 8 in Malad (West) on Monday morning, leaving several people injured.
According to preliminary information, the incident was reported at around 9.25 am on January 27 to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB). The blast occurred near A.C. Masjid, adjacent to Bharat Mata School, in the Malwani area.
Officials said the explosion was so powerful that the first-floor slab collapsed, causing occupants to fall into the ground-floor house below. The fire was confined to the main valve of the cylinder, a gas stove, an LPG cylinder, AC sheets, and household articles including eatables and a mattress in a room on the first floor of a ground-plus-two-storey structure.
Fire brigade personnel brought the blaze under control by 9.42 am.
According to the officials, a total of seven people were reported injured in the incident. Of these, four were shifted to Aadhar Hospital, while three were taken to Care Hospital.
At BDBA Hospital, Vijay Choudhary (54), Tausib Khan (18) and Ali Kasim (17) were treated and later discharged against medical advice (DAMA).
At Aadhar Hospital, Julekha Bano Aftaf Ansari (60) suffered 55-60 per cent burns and was later shifted to Cooper Hospital. Adil Shaikh (2) sustained 20 per cent burns and was also transferred to Cooper Hospital. Roma (35) and Alisha (18), both with 35 per cent burns, are admitted and reported to be in critical condition.
Emergency response teams, including personnel from the Mumbai Fire Brigade, local police, officials from the concerned electricity distribution company, a 108 ambulance service, and BMC ward staff, were deployed at the spot.
Further details were awaited.
5 injured as balloon gas cylinder explodes in Maharashtra's Malegaon town
In another incident, five people, including three women, were injured after a helium gas cylinder used for filling balloons exploded in Malegaon town of Maharashtra's Nashik district on Monday morning, police said.
Four of the injured were in a critical condition, they said.
The explosion took place near College Stop in the Malegaon Camp area at 10.10 am when a vendor was filling gas in balloons. Five people, including three women, received injuries in the cylinder blast, according to police.
The injured were taken to a private hospital in Malegaon initially and later shifted to Nashik for advanced treatment, they stated.
The balloon seller, Mohammed Sadiq Makbool Ahmed (33), a local resident, was taken into custody, a police official informed.
A case was registered against him under the relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including 125 (act endangering human life or personal safety of others), 287 (negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter), 288 (negligent conduct with respect to explosive substances), and the Explosives Act at the Malegaon Camp police station, he added.
Ethanol-carrying tanker overturns and catches fire; no casualty
Meanwhile, a tanker transporting ethanol from Solapur in Maharashtra to neighbouring Gujarat caught fire after it overturned in Georai tehsil of Beed district in the wee hours of Saturday, police said.
The incident occurred on the Dhule-Solapur highway around 2 am, they said.
"The tanker going to Gujarat veered off the road and hit the divider as its driver lost control over it. It overturned and immediately caught fire," a police official said.
After being alerted, a fire brigade team of the Georai Municipal Council rushed to the spot. Firefighters battled the blaze for several hours and brought it under control around 6 am, he said.
The tanker driver and his assistant escaped unhurt as they jumped out in time, but the vehicle was completely gutted in the fire, he added.
The incident led to a traffic jam on the highway, but the route was soon cleared by the police.
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