Pune: Infant among three injured in transformer blast in Bhosari

PUNE: Three persons, including a five-month-old girl, suffered serious burn injuries when a transformer of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) exploded at Indrayaninagar in Bhosari on Saturday evening.
The injured were rushed to the Sassoon General Hospital, where their condition was reported to be critical.
Senior police inspector Rajendra Kute of MIDC Bhosari police station told TOI, “Sharada Dilip Kotwal (50), Harshada Kakade (32) and her five-month-old daughter suffered serious injuries in the incident. They have been admitted to the Sassoon General Hospital. All the three have sustained over 70% burn injuries.”
Kute said that both Kotwal and Kakade families live in a small house at Indrayaninagar. The MSEDCL’s transformer is located near the house, which is Kakade’s maternal home.
He said that the transformer developed a technical snag on Friday and was replaced by MSEDCL officials on Saturday morning.
“The new transformer burst into flames due to overheating,” he said.
“Harshada was bathing her baby in the front yard of the house when hot liquid from the transformer fell on them as well as on Kakade, who was sitting nearby,” he said. “We have contacted the MSEDCL officials to probe the incident,” he said.
In a similar incident in June 2016, a 55-year-old man was killed in an MSEDCL transformer explosion in Chinchwad.