Surat: Five of a family injured in LPG cylinder blast

SURAT: Five members of a family including three children sustained serious burns in a LPG cylinder blast that took place in a flat located in the Kuberji Palace apartment in Vareli on Saturday morning. No casualty has been reported.
The blast caused a flash fire which led to a cement sheet roof crash down on the occupants of the house.
Fire department sources said that the blast was reported at about 8:30 am on Saturday morning when the children’s mother went to make tea in the kitchen and lit a match stick. The cylinder soon blast due to leakage of gas.
Four members of the family — Aashadevi Yadav, 28, Kunal, 8, Lavkush Yadav, 6, and Mithu, 3, sustained around 40% burns, along with a relative, Nikhilesh Rai, 21. The husband, Rajendra Yadav, was at work at an industrial unit in Kadodara. Neighbours called ambulance and shifted the victims to the SMIMER and New Civil hospital where they are stated to be normal.
A fire officer said that the blast occurred due to the leakage of gas which got accumulated in the house as it was shut and did not have any proper ventilation. “However, immediately after the blast happened, the victims managed to come out of the house and the fire too could be extinguished soon by the fire teams.”