Engineer hurt in April 9 OFC blast dies in Delhi hospital

Kanpur: Assistant engineer Pankaj Srivastava, who had sustained critical injuries in a blast at Ordnance Factory Cawnpore (OFC) last month and was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi, succumbed on Monday.
Another assistant engineer and an examiner were killed and several others had suffered critical injuries when a nitrogen gas cylinder attached to a field gun had exploded at the factory in Armapur area of the city on April 9.
SHO Armapur Ajit Kumar Verma said, “Assistant engineer Pankaj Srivastava died at a hospital in Safdarjung in New Delhi on Monday morning. We have come to know about his death from OFC officials.”
“Pankaj, a resident of Panki, was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Sarvodaya Nagar in the city. When his condition deteriorated on April 14, he was referred to a Delhi hospital where he succumbed on Monday at around 8 am,” added Verma. Assistant engineer Mohan Singh Rajput and examiner MP Mahto were killed while seven, including Pankaj Srivastava, had sustained serious injuries in the explosion.
Senior general manager of the factory Mukul Kumar Garg had then claimed that the incident occurred while the light field gun was being tested under the supervision of engineers and examiners at the testing wing of the factory and a nitrogen cylinder attached to the barrel of the gun went off. A probe was also ordered into the incident.