One person was killed, while three others sustained severe wounds in an explosion of air-conditioner at the lake City Mall in the satellite city of Thane on Tuesday.
The mishap took place around 3.30 pm, when four technicians were repairing an air-conditioner on the fourth floor of the mall, located on a busy traffic junction linking Thane with the powerloom town of Bhiwandi. The air-conditioner blew up all of a sudden, resulting in a massive fire.
While one of the technician died instantly, three others sustained severe burn injuries in the mishap. “The technicians were filling gas in the compressor when it exploded. One of the technicians was thrown off the fourth floor where they were working. He fell down on the ground floor and died on the spot, while three other technicians suffered burn injuries,” Santosh Kadam chief of the Thane Municipal Corporation’s Disaster Cell, said.
The Thane police identified the deceased as one Gulam Ghouse Alam, while other admitted to the Thane civil hospital were identified as Banmali Behra (36) Salman Khan (20) and Mohammed Khan (28).