A 25-year-old man died after a cylinder exploded in a cylinder filling shop in west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar area on Tuesday evening, police said.
A fire call was received at 7.40 pm regarding the blast in a general store in Valmiki Colony in Tilak Nagar, fire officials said, adding that six fire tenders were rushed to the site to douse the fire.
A senior police officer said that the victim, Ravi Sharma, 25, was shifted to DDU hospital. “On enquiry, it was revealed that the fire started on the ground floor of a general store due to a short circuit, and then it reached the cylinder, following which it exploded,” an officer said.
