HYDERABAD: The death toll from the catastrophic gas cylinder explosion in Hyderabad increased to 23 on Wednesday when five more victims of the disaster passed away.
About a week has passed since the explosion in Preetabad, a heavily populated district of Hyderabad, and the assistant commissioner has confirmed the most recent casualties.
Two persons were killed on the spot and over sixty others were injured in the sad explosion that happened at a business selling liquefied petroleum gas (LNG) cylinders last Thursday, May 30.
Nevertheless, the death toll kept going up every day.
The store, along with other adjacent stores and homes, was completely destroyed by the two blasts. Eyewitnesses reported that one of the fires also destroyed a rickshaw and hurt other bystanders.
