INDIA
Several hutments were gutted in the incident which took place in the slum cluster near Premwari Bridge in AO-Block in Shalimar Bagh at around 8:30am.
Twenty-seven people were injured, seven of them seriously, when a fire broke out in a slum cluster in the capital following leakage of cooking gas this morning, fire brigade officials said.
Several hutments were gutted in the incident which took place in the slum cluster near Premwari Bridge in AO-Block in Shalimar Bagh at around 8:30am.
Some people were transferring gas from one cylinder to another when the incident took place.
"There was a leakage of gas and someone lit a match box. The cylinder exploded and the fire spread to nearby hutments. Seven fire tenders were rushed to the spot which doused the blaze in about 70 minutes," Delhi fire services director RC Sharma told reporters.
"Twenty-seven people were injured in the incident and they were rushed to a nearby hospital where they are undergoing treatment," he said.
The condition of seven persons including two children and three women are serious.
A series of major fire incidents have taken place in the capital this month.
There were two major fire incidents in the city - one at Mundka plastic scrapyard and the other in jungles located near Jawaharlal Nehru University on Sunday while a day before a fire broke out in a container depot in Tuglaqabad, which destroyed goods worth crores meant for exports.
Around 600 hutments were gutted and two persons injured on April 8 when a major power transmission line fell down on an east Delhi slum, triggering a massive fire.
On April 2, four major fire incidents were reported from the city, including one at former union minister Ram Vilas Paswan's residence and another at the income tax office.
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