At least nine persons, including four children, have died after suffering grievous injuries in the explosion of an LPG cylinder and resultant fire in a room on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, police said on Saturday.
The deceased belonged to Madhya Pradesh, a senior officer said.
The incident occurred on the night of July 20. While eight victims - labourers and their family members - died in the last couple of days during treatment, another one succumbed to injuries on Saturday morning, he said.
"Leakage of gas from an LPG cylinder had triggered explosion and fire, in which 10 persons, including children and women, suffered severe burn injuries.
The incident has claimed the lives of nine of them so far. They were undergoing treatment at the civil hospital," inspector P R Jadeja of Aslali police station said.
The labourers and their family members were sleeping in the small room when the gas from their cylinder started leaking.
When their neighbour knocked on their door to alert them about the leakage, one of the labourers got up and switched on the light, which triggered a spark and led to the explosion due to the concentration of gas, another police official said.