Driver killed as truck carrying cylinders catches fire in Maharashtra

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The driver of a truck carrying hydrogen gas cylinders was on Tuesday charred to death after the vehicle overturned on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway here and caught fire, police said. The incident happened at around 4 pm and the truck was on its way from Bharuch in Gujarat to Taloja, over 100 kilometres from here, Palghar police spokesperson Hemant Kumar
Katkar said.

"The truck was on Charoti bridge in Kasa police area of Dahanu when it overturned. Driver Avat Bihari was charred to death after the truck went up in flames," he said. Katkar said traffic on the highway was being re-routed through Vikramgad town, adding that fire brigade personnel were still trying to douse the blaze.

In a similar incident, a four-year-old girl died and a man received injuries when a cooking gas cylinder exploded in a house in Mumbai and led to a fire, said a civic official. The incident took place at 5.21 pm in a 'chawl' (tenement) in Kranti Nagar, suburban Kurla, when the LPG cylinder suddenly exploded and caused a minor fire in and around the house, the official from the Disaster Management Unit of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

"Our fire brigade jawans reached the spot and extinguished the flames by 5.55 pm," the official said. Two people - a four-year-old girl, Anushka Chaurasia, and one Ravi Parmar (21) received injuries in the blast and the subsequent fire, he said. Both were taken to nearby Rajawadi Hospital where the girl was declared brought dead, the official said. The condition of Parmar is stable," he added.

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