{"id":399736,"date":"2021-02-09T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T06:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399736"},"modified":"2021-02-09T13:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T07:31:20","slug":"2-trucks-carrying-324-lpg-cylinders-explode-near-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/2-trucks-carrying-324-lpg-cylinders-explode-near-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"2 trucks carrying 324 LPG cylinders explode near Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of blasts were reported in two trucks carrying nearly 324 filled liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders around 2am on Monday, at an open ground in Ram Nagar, Mira Road (East). Three vehicles were damaged and a bystander got injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trucks were parked at a reserved plot belonging to the Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) on Sunday and were scheduled to leave on Monday morning to distribute the gas cylinders to Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum agencies. However, around 2am, a chain of seven blasts were reported and fire engulfed the two trucks along with a nearby pickup van,\u201d said Prakash Borade, chief fire officer, MBMC Fire Brigade.<\/p>\n<p>Ketan Solanki, 25, who was part of the group of bystanders gathered at the blast site, tripped and injured his leg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of blasts were reported in two trucks carrying nearly 324 filled liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders around 2am on Monday, at an open ground in Ram Nagar, Mira Road (East). Three vehicles were damaged and a bystander got injured. \u201cThe trucks were parked at a reserved plot belonging to the Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) on Sunday and were scheduled to leave on Monday morning to distribute the gas cylinders to Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum agencies. However, around 2am, a chain of seven blasts were reported and fire engulfed the two trucks along with a nearby pickup van,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}