7 Dead, 7 Injured In Cylinder Blast In UP, 2 Houses Collapse

Rescue efforts are on to trace one person possibly trapped under the rubble.

Seven people died last night in a cylinder blast in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district which also left seven others injured and brought down two houses. Rescue efforts are on to trace one person possibly trapped under the rubble. The injured are being treated at a hospital. The blast happened in Tikri village while one of the families was cooking last night. 15 people were trapped under the debris of the collapsed houses, which were adjacent to each other, out of which seven died. Men, women and children are among the victims.