Member of the House of Representatives of Nepal, Bhandari has sustained 25 per cent burns while his mother has sustained about 80 per cent burns, according to a release from Nepal's Kirtipur Hospital where the two are admitted.
"We have received the report on the blast at a restaurant and bar in Mapusa city. As per the report, gas leakage from a pipe led to a cylinder blast. In this incident, no one suffered any injury," DGP Goa Jaspal Singh told ANI.
More than ten students aged between 8 to 14 years fell ill following chlorine gas leakage in a municipal swimming pool in the Vijayawada district of Andhra Pradesh, said the swimming pool academy supervisor on Thursday.
The Bhopal gas tragedy, touted as the world's worst industrial disaster, had claimed the lives of several thousand people after a deadly gas leaked from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
Four engines of the fire brigade were rushed to the spot after the company executives informed the police about the incident. Some civilians were shifted to a safe place.
The death of a three-year-old boy in a suspected gas leak at a locked-down residential compound in northwestern China has triggered excessive outrage in the country.