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Twelve injured in blast at illegal gas filling unit

Staff Reporter

Most of the injured are autorickshaw drivers

RISKY BUSINESS: Officials inspecting the site where the blast took place, at Tilaknagar in Bangalore on Tuesday. — Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.

BANGALORE: Twelve people, including 10 autorickshaw drivers, were injured in an explosion at an illegal auto liquefied petroleum gas-filling unit in Tilaknagar Police Station limits on Tuesday.

The police said that around 4.30 p.m., two employees of a LPG-filling unit at S.R.K. Garden, near Swagath Cinema, were filling LPG from domestic cylinders to autorickshaw cylinders. As some one lit a beedi, it ignited an explosion. The injured have been admitted in Victoria Hospital and are reportedly out of danger. As it is a congested and densely populated area, a few who were standing in front of the shop were also injured, DCP (South) Alok Kumar told The Hindu .

The Tilaknagar police have registered a case against Noor Khan, proprietor of the unit, for illegally running the business and for causing injuries to others, he said. Police Commissioner Ajai Kumar Singh, and Mr. Alok Kumar visited the spot.

The names of the injured were given as Nazeer and Mubarak, employees, Anwar Pasha, Akbar, Malage Gowda, Basavaraj, Kantharaj, Sheik Firoze, Rafiq, Zabiullah and Zaheer Khan, autorickshaw drivers.

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