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Sunday, 24 January 2010

LPG cylinder bursts in Tamil Nadu; 60-year-old charred to death


A 60-year-old man was charred to death when a LPG cylinder burst while he was sleeping in a house near Udhagamandalam today, police saidBody parts were found strewn outside the house and two rooms were damaged in the impact of the blast, police said.

The man, a retired bus conductor and working as caretaker of the house, was sleeping near the kitchen after lighting fire to a woodlog and dry leaves to beat the biting cold.

The spark from the fire could have resulted in the blast, police said.

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