THE SHAHU Nagar police Monday arrested a 28-year-old man in the LPG cylinder leak and subsequent fire incident at a slum structure in Dharavi’s Shahu Nagar, which injured 17 residents on Sunday afternoon.
Contrary to the BMC version, the police said that the cylinder did not explode but the gas leak from the cylinder caught fire leading to burn injuries to the 17 residents, including an eight-year-old. Five were critically injured and were admitted with 50-60 per cent burn injuries. The incident took place in a narrow lane opposite to Hotel Mubarak in Dharavi.
The arrested accused Mohamed Miraj Siddiqui, a labourer, was removing the cylinder from his one-storey structure after his wife told him that it was leaking.
