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  • Three-year-old boy killed in LPG cylinder blast in West Bengal’s Malda

    By PTI

    MALDA (WEST BENGAL): A three-year-old child was killed in an LPG cylinder blast in West Bengal’s Malda district on Saturday, police said.

    The incident took place in Jadupur Nayagram village in Kaliachak police station area in the morning when the child, identified as Tabrez Sheikh, was playing near the kitchen when an LPG cylinder exploded, an officer said.

    The boy was critically injured and admitted to Kaliachak Rural Hospital, and later shifted to Malda Medical College and Hospital, where doctors declared him dead, he said. The body has been sent for post-mortem examination, the officer said, adding that further investigation is underway.

  • Uttar Pradesh: Watchman charred to death in LPG cylinder blast

    By PTI
    PILBHIT: A watchman was charred to death in an LPG cylinder blast while he was sleeping in his room at a colony here on Sunday morning, police said.

    Sungarhi police station SHO Indrakant Dwivedi said Kallu (35), a watchman at Vasundhara Colony, was sleeping at his room located near the gate of the colony with an electric heater on.

    The gas cylinder exploded owing to the heat generated by the heater.

    “Kallu was burnt to death,” the SHO said, adding the body has been sent for a post-mortem examination.