BENGALURU: A 22-year-old worker of a fuel company was killed and three others, together with a girl and her three-year old child, were injured after a two-storey development collapsed following a cylinder explosion at Bapuji Circle in Kadugodi close to Whitefield on Sunday.
Kadugodi police have identified the deceased as Syed Afsar Pasha, a resident of Kadugodi. He was employed through Khalid at BAK Gas Distributors, a private fuel company which operated out of the bottom ground of the development. Khalid also operated a bicycle mart from the premises.
One of the 22 LPG cylinders exploded around 10.30am, police stated, and the development crumbled underneath the impact. Four folks — Pasha and his colleague Saleem aka Kallu aka Pradeep and Sultana and her son Syed Zain — were trapped in the debris. While Pasha and Saleem were on the floor ground on the time of the explosion, Sultana and Zain were on the higher ground.
Police and hearth and emergency services and products group of workers pulled Sultana, 25, and her son Syed Zain out, and the 2 were ferried to a nearby private health facility for remedy. The mom and son are out of danger, police quoted doctors as pronouncing.
Emergency group of workers rescued Saleem, from West Bengal, at 4pm — six hours after the explosion. He is being handled in a private health facility. Pasha was alive when he was rescued from the debris, but succumbed to injuries in the health facility.
Preliminary investigation printed that Khalid’s son Parvez, who is the development owner, has a licence for the fuel company, but police have registered a case towards the duo and detained Parvez. Khalid is still at huge.
Police stated they're looking forward to Saleem to get well to query him on what resulted in the tragic incident.
“He is in the ICU and we're looking forward to the doctor’s nod to report his commentary,” a police officer stated.
The officer added that a case has been registered towards Khalid and his son Parvez underneath various sections of IPC, The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Act (Regulation of Supply and Distribution) Order and Essential Commodities Act.
Locals allege Khalid and Parvez were illegally refilling LPG cylinders on the outlet.
“We will investigate to find out if this is true,” a police officer stated. “We don’t know the way many cylinders exploded. That can be transparent once the debris is cleared.”
Kadugodi police have identified the deceased as Syed Afsar Pasha, a resident of Kadugodi. He was employed through Khalid at BAK Gas Distributors, a private fuel company which operated out of the bottom ground of the development. Khalid also operated a bicycle mart from the premises.
One of the 22 LPG cylinders exploded around 10.30am, police stated, and the development crumbled underneath the impact. Four folks — Pasha and his colleague Saleem aka Kallu aka Pradeep and Sultana and her son Syed Zain — were trapped in the debris. While Pasha and Saleem were on the floor ground on the time of the explosion, Sultana and Zain were on the higher ground.
Police and hearth and emergency services and products group of workers pulled Sultana, 25, and her son Syed Zain out, and the 2 were ferried to a nearby private health facility for remedy. The mom and son are out of danger, police quoted doctors as pronouncing.
Emergency group of workers rescued Saleem, from West Bengal, at 4pm — six hours after the explosion. He is being handled in a private health facility. Pasha was alive when he was rescued from the debris, but succumbed to injuries in the health facility.
Preliminary investigation printed that Khalid’s son Parvez, who is the development owner, has a licence for the fuel company, but police have registered a case towards the duo and detained Parvez. Khalid is still at huge.
Police stated they're looking forward to Saleem to get well to query him on what resulted in the tragic incident.
“He is in the ICU and we're looking forward to the doctor’s nod to report his commentary,” a police officer stated.
The officer added that a case has been registered towards Khalid and his son Parvez underneath various sections of IPC, The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Act (Regulation of Supply and Distribution) Order and Essential Commodities Act.
Locals allege Khalid and Parvez were illegally refilling LPG cylinders on the outlet.
“We will investigate to find out if this is true,” a police officer stated. “We don’t know the way many cylinders exploded. That can be transparent once the debris is cleared.”
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