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One killed, two injured after oxygen cylinder exploded at Panki oxygen plant

One killed, two injured after oxygen cylinder exploded at Panki oxygen plant
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Faiz.Siddiqui@timesgroup.com
Kanpur: A worker of the oxygen bottling plant was killed while two others were injured, one among them critically, after an oxygen cylinder exploded during refilling at the Panki oxygen plant in Dada Nagar Industrial area of the city during the wee hours of Friday.
After getting information, the district and the police officials rushed to the spot and launched a rescue operation.

Police later rushed the injured to the hospital while dispatched the body of the deceased worker to mortuary for the post-mortem examination.
According to ACP Govind Nagar, Vikas Kumar Pandey, the mishap took place at around 4 am during refilling of an oxygen cylinder.
The deceased has been identified as Murad Ali, a resident of Mardanpur, who was an oxygen plant worker.

Police said one injured person, identified as Hari Om Gautam, who looks after the oxygen management related work at a private hospital in the city, who sustained critical wounds, is undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit of Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital while another injured Ajay, a supervisor at the oxygen plant, was discharged after primary medical treatment.
“Further investigations are on in this regard. We are in the process of restoring refilling work at the bottling plant, which was closed due to the explosion,” police further said.
In order to cater the need of Covid-19 patients in and around the region, refilling work at the oxygen bottling units in the city is going on a war-footing.
Hospital employees from nearby districts, including Jhansi, Banda, Lalitpur, Jalaun and several other districts, including Lucknow, are making a beeline at the bottling plants to get a refill for patients suffering from the deadly virus.
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