Times News Network Varanasi: Two people including a woman killed while the other four suffered a big injury when the hydrogen cylinder exploded when filling a balloon near the Shahid Baba Mazaar Plast area below the Ramnagar police station on Sunday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone Kashi Amit Kumar said that during the initial investigation the police appeared that the explosion was caused by leakage in the gas cylinder used to fill the balloon.
Six people were injured in the incident.
They were all treated at the center of Trauma University of Banaras Hindu, where doctors stated two people, including a woman, died.
The police said that one Lulla Seth (45), the native of Konia, sold a balloon after filling it with a cylinder stored in the hands near the Shahid Baba Mazaar Plast on Sunday night.
At noting the smoke near the cylinder, some local residents tried to remind Lulla but before he could do anything, the cylinder exploded and he exploded up to several meters.
Geeta Devi (40), native residents of Kunda Khurd who are waiting for automatic rickshaws to return home, People pass by Bablooo (40), Alia (5), Kallua aka Asif (32) and Navin Yadav (19) from Mugalarai In Chandauli Regency also suffered a big injury in this explosion.
The people near the area immediately distracted the people who were injured in the automatic rickshaw and rushed to the trauma center.
Because of getting DCP Kashi information and heavy police forces also reached the place.