Four people were injured, two of them critically, in the blast of an LPG cylinder at a construction site in the Ghatkopar area late on Tuesday night, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
According to the civic body, the incident occurred around 9.11 pm in temporary sheds built for workers at Neeldhara, a private under-construction residential building (ground plus seven floors) located on 60-ft Road, opposite Jain Mandir, near Vidyaniketan College.
According to civic officials, teams from the Mumbai Fire Brigade, local police, and ward staff were immediately mobilised to the spot. The injured were rushed to Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar.
Ghanshyam Yadav (36) and Devendra Pal (26) suffered 60 to 70 per cent burns and were in a critical condition, while Mahendra Choudhari (32) and Sandeep Pal (20) sustained 10 to 12 per cent and 5 per cent burns, respectively, and were in a stable condition, the officials said.
This was the second incident of a gas cylinder blast in the city within a week. Last Wednesday, seven people, including six women, were injured in a cylinder blast in Kandivali. Six of them, all women, died during treatment.
16 electrical meters damaged in fire in Thane building
In another incident, a fire broke out in the electrical meter box room of a building in Maharashtra`s Thane city early on Wednesday, damaging 16 meters, an official said.
No person was injured in the incident, Thane Municipal Corporation`s disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said.
The blaze erupted on the ground floor of the three-storey Dnyaneshwar Smriti Society in the Dhokali area. A total of 16 electric meters were damaged, he said.
The fire control room reported it at 4.36 am, the official said, adding the blaze was limited to the electrical meters.
Personnel of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company and the fire brigade rushed to the spot, and the blaze was extinguished by around 5 am, he said.
The cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, the official said.
Meanwhile, a 35-year-old man was critically injured when a portion of a two-storey house collapsed in the Antop Hill area on Tuesday, officials said.
The injured, Mohammed Hussain Shaikh, is undergoing treatment at Sion Hospital. The incident occurred in the Bhartiya Kamla Nagar area around 2:15 PM, an official said.
This is the second such incident reported in the metropolis within three hours. Earlier in the day, a portion of the gallery of a two-storey building collapsed in the Andheri area. Fortunately, nobody was injured in the incident, according to officials. The incident was reported at 11.30 am in P&T Colony on Sahar Airport Road.
