Demanding probe into Lagama LPG gas cylinder blast whichleft five members of a family dead, the traders of Uri town in north Kashmir’sBaramulla district are observing shutdown on Wednesday.
The traders have urged the authorities to hold an inquiryinto what they termed as a mysterious blast.
The shutdown call was issued by the Traders Federation Uri.”The authorities should probe the blast as it was very huge and consumed fivelives,” said Haji Asadullah, President Traders federation Uri.
Five members of a family, including a woman, her threedaughters and a son, had died after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in theirhouse in Lagama on May 27.
Demanding probe into the incident, Shabir Ahmad, an uncle ofthe deceased children, said leakage had taken place but the cylinder didn’texplode. “If gas cylinder did not explode then what kind of blast took placeinside the house?” he asked.
He said that the sound of the blast was heard threekilometres away. “Leakage took place in a 5-kg gas cylinder, but it didn’texplode. An explosion-like sound was heard not only in Lagama but also in Uritown which is three kilometres away from the place of incidence,” said Ahmad.
He asked the investigative agencies to probe the nature ofthe blast. “Let them (investigative agencies) probe the blast which we believeis mysterious,” he said.