As per information, a fire broke out in a chips manufacturing unit near the civil station and later spread to nearby shops, and triggered the cylinder explosion.
With this price hike, a 19-kg commercial cylinder in Delhi will cost Rs 1,769, Rs 1,721 in Mumbai, Rs 1,870 in Kolkata and Rs 1,971 in Chennai. However, there would be no change in the prices for domestic LPG.
The incident took place on Thursday evening at a house in Shergarh sub-division's Bhungra village where guests had gathered for a wedding. The fire was caused after a cylinder exploded in the house, said District Collector Himanshu Gupta.
Four people were killed and 60 others were injured in a gas cylinder explosion that took place in the Bhungra village of Rajasthan's Jodhpur, an official said on Thursday.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took a swipe at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and questioned the government why the prices of petrol, diesel and gas cylinders have not come down even after the Crude Oil and LPG price have been slashed in the international market.
With the intention to underline the issues of high fuel prices, inflation and joblessness, the Congress MLA went to the polling booth on a bicycle with a cylinder on it.
Nine people were killed after a gas cylinder exploded in a five-story residential building in settlement of Tymovskoye on Russia's Far Eastern Sakhalin Island on Saturday. The explosion took place at around 5:03 a.m. Moscow time and the incident involved four children among nine deceased.
Nearly 50 people including police personnel in Bihar's Aurangabad were injured after a general store in Shahganj Teli area caught fire causing a gas cylinder to explode.