6 injured as single-story building collapses in North Delhi, gas cylinder blast suspected
Police recovered 38 empty gas cylinders from the site on Tuesday.
The rubble of the house that collapsed after the cylinder blast (Express Photo) (Written by Mishal Mussaddique.)
A 2,250-square-foot single-story building collapsed after a suspected gas cylinder blast in North Delhi’s Mukundpur on Tuesday, injuring 10 people, police said.
Six of the injured, most of them daily wage labourers, suffered burn injuries and are being treated at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital.
Two persons – Sudhir Rai and Harkesh Bahadur – were arrested in connection with the incident. Police said the building was being used to run a utensil – coating business operated by Rai. At the same time, the premises were allegedly being used by a relative of Bahadur to store gas cylinders.
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Police recovered 38 empty gas cylinders from the site on Tuesday.
“Further, at the instance of Harkesh, 46 vacant gas cylinders – 25 domestic-use and 21 commercial-use cylinders – have also been recovered from a room in a property next to where the blast took place,” DCP Hareshwar Swami said.
Residents alleged that Bahadur supplied cylinders to customers in Mukundpur and Shalimar Bagh. “These cylinders were easily available and always just a call away. The prices went up to Rs 3,500 and later reduced to Rs 2,500 for small LPG cylinders. He sold up to 40 to 50 cylinders a day with the help of distributors. All the workers were migrants, and they worked and stayed in the same house,” said Sandeep Sharma (30).
Dharmendra Rawat Damu, AAP councillor from Ward 9 at Burari’s Sant Nagar, alleged that residents and elected representatives had repeatedly complained about the cylinder business operating from the property.
“We have complained several times, but the authorities did not pay heed. We called the food supply officer to the site because illegal cylinders were stored in buildings next to the house that collapsed, but they did not cooperate with us,” Damu said.
Teams from the National Disaster Response Force rescued the injured from the debris. Police said a preliminary inspection found no indication that additional people were trapped under the rubble.
Officials from the Food and Civil Supplies department were also present at the scene.
Police said they have invoked relevant provisions of the Essential Commodities Act against the accused. In addition to the six people who suffered burn injuries, the remaining injured victims were admitted to Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital and Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital for treatment.
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