are being treated at Cooper Hospital, said this paper's front-page news report. The report cited how firefighters had doused the blaze and recovered hundreds of damaged cylinders. The BMC said it will raze the building that has been badly damaged.

The scale of the operation in the building is shocking and the authorities are yet to ascertain how many more cylinders were in the premises or in neighboring structures. While those in charge say they are investigating this godown and even the status of the building, it is sheer good fortune that there was no slum cluster next to the structure. Otherwise, the scale of the disaster could have been mammoth and the tragedy's severity may have increased.