Mumbai: Seven, including two-year-old child, injured as gas leak triggers explosion in Malad chawl

Seven people including a twoyearold 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 injuredAccording to preliminary information the incident was reported at around 925 am on January 27 to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporationrsquos BMC Mumbai Fire Brigade MFB The blast occurred near AC Masjid adjacent to Bharat Mata School in the Malwani areaOfficials said the explosion was so powerful that the firstfloor slab collapsed causing occupants to fall into the groundfloor 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 groundplustwostorey structureFire brigade personnel brought the blaze under control by 942 amAccording 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 HospitalAt BDBA Hospital Vijay Choudhary 54 Tausib Khan 18 and Ali Kasim 17 were treated and later discharged against medical advice DAMAAt Aadhar Hospital Julekha Bano Aftaf Ansari 60 suffered 5560 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 conditionEmergency 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 spotFurther details were awaited5 injured as balloon gas cylinder explodes in Maharashtras Malegaon townIn another incident five people including three women were injured after a helium gas cylinder used for filling balloons exploded in Malegaon town of Maharashtras Nashik district on Monday morning police saidFour of the injured were in a critical condition they saidThe explosion took place near College Stop in the Malegaon Camp area at 1010 am when a vendor was filling gas in balloons Five people including three women received injuries in the cylinder blast according to policeThe injured were taken to a private hospital in Malegaon initially and later shifted to Nashik for advanced treatment they statedThe balloon seller Mohammed Sadiq Makbool Ahmed 33 a local resident was taken into custody a police official informedA 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 addedEthanolcarrying tanker overturns and catches fire no casualtyMeanwhile 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 saidThe incident occurred on the DhuleSolapur highway around 2 am they saidThe 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 saidAfter 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 saidThe tanker driver and his assistant escaped unhurt as they jumped out in time but the vehicle was completely gutted in the fire he addedThe incident led to a traffic jam on the highway but the route was soon cleared by the police