Gas cylinder leak causes fire, seven injured including four children, seven injured including four children

House and shop caught fire due to leakage in the pipe of a gas cylinder, seven people including four children were burnt, referred to a trauma centre. In this accident, seven people, including four children, were badly burned, one of whom was referred to the trauma center. The fire department is investigating the cause of the fire. Jagran Correspondent, Halia (Mirzapur). On Sunday, while cooking food in the house behind the cosmetics shop in nearby Bhatwari village, the house and the shop caught fire due to leakage in the pipe of the gas cylinder. While trying to put it out, seven people, including a woman and four children, got burnt. Remove Advertisement Only Read News On hearing the noise, the villagers reached the spot and put out the fire with canal and drain water from buckets and boxes, but by then all the things were burnt and destroyed. The ambulance which arrived on the information of the villagers took the burnt people to the Primary Health Centre, Haliya. From there, when the woman’s condition became critical, she was sent to the Trauma Center of the Medical College. Rajesh Maurya’s wife Anita was cooking food on a gas cylinder in a room of his residence behind his shop in Bhatwari village Haliya. During this time there was leakage in the pipe. The fire that broke out spread through the house and shop. All the goods kept in the shop were burnt. Rajesh’s father Mannalal Maurya filed a complaint at the police station saying that while he was cooking food, goods worth lakhs of rupees – shoes, slippers, bangles, clothes, soap, oil etc. was destroyed in the fire due to leakage in the pipe of the cylinder. While putting out the fire, Rajesh Maurya, Anita, 13-year-old Aanchal, eight-year-old Anshika, six-year-old Aarti, four-year-old Anshi and 60-year-old Suraja Devi Devi were burnt. Doctor Raviraj said that wife Anita, who suffered 40 percent burn injuries, was referred to the trauma center for first aid. While others are treated in PHC. Police station chief Rajiv Kumar Srivastava and village chief Rajesh Maurya informed the regional accountant about the arson.