Five injured after gas leak triggers flare-up at IIT-Bombay labour camp

Five people were injured after a gas leak from a cylinder pipe led to a flareup at the Indian Institute of Technology IITBombay campus on Thursday night the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC said in a press releaseThe incident was reported at 1024 pm from labour camp on the Powai campus According to the BMC the incident was reported by Rajawadi Hospital following which police and BMC ward staff were mobilisedAs per information received from the medical officer concerned at Rajawadi Hospital five people were injured in the incident and brought to the hospital for treatmentFour of the injured were later transferred to Kasturba Hospital while one was admitted to Rajawadi Hospital All five were reported to be in stable conditionTwo children aged 12 and nine were transferred to Kasturba HospitalThree others mdash Ishwar Singh 37 was admitted to Rajawadi Hospital while Shivkumar Singh 34 and Anilkumar Yadav 23 were transferred to Kasturba HospitalFurther details about the cause of the gas leakage were awaitedFour die after inhaling toxic gas while allegedly stealing from shipFour men died due to suspected inhalation of a toxic gas while allegedly trying to commit a theft on board a foreignflagged vessel stranded off the Manori beach in Mumbais Gorai area police said on October 1The ship on which the incident occurred two to three days back had run aground four months ago due to strong winds and heavy rainfall they saidAccording to the polices preliminary investigation a gang had been repeatedly targeting the stranded vessel over the past one monthTwo to three days ago a group of eight individuals boarded the ship using a speedboat While one person stayed back to navigate the speedboat seven others climbed aboard the vessel the police saidTrouble began when four members of the gang went into the interior compartments of the ship to cut a gas pipeline using a gas cutter with the intention of committing a theft But a sudden toxic gas leak inside the enclosed space caused all four to allegedly suffocate and die on the spot an official saidThe matter came to light when one of their associates approached the Gorai police station and reported that four of his companions were trapped inside the ship he saidFollowing the alert the local police coordinated with the merchant navy personnel and launched a recovery operationOn Wednesday search teams entered the ship with the assistance of a helicopter retrieved the four bodies and sent them to a local hospital for postmortem examinationsAll four deceased persons are below 30 years of age Efforts are underway to formally establish their identities and determine how they navigated the sea to execute the thefts a police official saidAccording to the investigators the gang had previously raided the vessel twicePreliminary reports suggest that a case has been registered against the owner of the ship who is currently abroad and abscondingPolice are also probing allegations that the vessel was involved in illegal oilrelated activities prior to running aground though official confirmation is pendingThe Gorai police have registered an accidental death report ADR and further investigation into the incident is underway