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Five women injured in Chembur toilet blast

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Five women, including a six-year-old girl, were injured in a fire following an explosion of sewer gases at a public toilet in Chembur’s Vashi Naka on Friday. Sewer generated gases, often called sewer gas, contain highly-inflammable methane.

The blast took place around 6:45am at one of the ground floor chambers of the toilet building at Bharat Nagar slum. The injured were identified as Shama Ashok Revankar (35), her daughter Nandini (6), Alka Wani (28), Kaiser Sheikh (40), and Sunanda Gaikwad (38). “Shama sustained 70 per cent burns and was admitted to Sion hospital along with her daughter. Wani, Sheikh and Gaikwad are undergoing treatment at Rajawadi hospital,” Dilip Yadav, senior inspector attached to RCF police station, said.

A case has been registered against Jai Sriram Ganesh Mitra Mandal chief Vennu Reddy, the contractor of the public toilet,  under Sections 336 (Act of endangering life or personal safety of others) and 338 (causing grievance hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The BMC, which has entrusted the responsibility of maintaining the toilet to the NGO for three years, said it will probe the matter.

“The structure may be faulty leaving no space for exhaustion of gas. It could also be possible that the toilet chambers are not cleaned regularly, which accumulated the gas. The municipal sewage disposal project wing will look into the issue,” assistant municipal commissioner (M-East ward) Kiran Dighavkar said.

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