Mumbai: Four injured in LPG cylinder blast at construction site in Ghatkopar

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 BMCAccording to the civic body the incident occurred around 911 pm in temporary sheds built for workers at Neeldhara a private underconstruction residential building ground plus seven floors located on 60ft Road opposite Jain Mandir near Vidyaniketan CollegeAccording 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 GhatkoparGhanshyam 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 saidThis 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 treatment16 electrical meters damaged in fire in Thane buildingIn another incident a fire broke out in the electrical meter box room of a building in Maharashtras Thane city early on Wednesday damaging 16 meters an official saidNo person was injured in the incident Thane Municipal Corporations disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi saidThe blaze erupted on the ground floor of the threestorey Dnyaneshwar Smriti Society in the Dhokali area A total of 16 electric meters were damaged he saidThe fire control room reported it at 436 am the official said adding the blaze was limited to the electrical metersPersonnel 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 saidThe cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained the official saidMeanwhile a 35yearold man was critically injured when a portion of a twostorey house collapsed in the Antop Hill area on Tuesday officials saidThe injured Mohammed Hussain Shaikh is undergoing treatment at Sion Hospital The incident occurred in the Bhartiya Kamla Nagar area around 215 PM an official saidThis is the second such incident reported in the metropolis within three hours Earlier in the day a portion of the gallery of a twostorey building collapsed in the Andheri area Fortunately nobody was injured in the incident according to officials The incident was reported at 1130 am in PampT Colony on Sahar Airport Road