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Cylinder Blast Blows up Kitchen Wall, Kills Two

INCIDENT
It was supposed to be a simple job of replacing an empty cylinder with a filled one. But,
things went horribly wrong for a family in a Nerul apartment.

On Monday February 3
rd
2014, around 11 pm, Shalaka Tondwalkar ran out of gas. She
asked her husband, Ravindra, to help her exchange the empty cylinder with the fresh
one. After doing so, the couple didnt realise that the regulator on the new cylinder had
not been affixed properly. Gas started leaking from it, and about 20-25 minutes later,
the family realised it.


However, their son, Sachin, made the mistake of trying to switch off the electricity
supply. No sooner did he flick the switch, the spark fuelled the gas and explosion took
place. The impact was so powerful that kitchen wall in their second-floor flat came
crashing down.

It was a terrible tragedy for two people who went running outside their building to see
what had happened. The broken portion of the kitchen wall crushed them.


The chief fire officer, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation said, The gas mustve leaked
for some time before the blast. In such cases, explosions do not happen immediately.

Besides the two casualties, twelve persons were injured in the incident. They were
rushed to Shushrusha and Dr DY Patil Hospital in Nerul.









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