Jaipur-Ajmer highway inferno: LPG truck collision triggers massive fire

NEW DELHI: A large occurrence broke retired connected the Jaipur-Ajmer road precocious Tuesday nighttime aft a motortruck carrying LPG cylinders collided with different conveyance adjacent the Dudu area, officials said.

The interaction of the clang triggered aggregate explosions arsenic state cylinders began to burst, sending flames and shockwaves crossed the stretch. The blaze and large explosions were disposable and audible from respective kilometres away, according to quality bureau PTI.Police unit and occurrence brigades rushed to the scene, halting postulation connected some sides of the engaged highway.

Rescue and firefighting operations continued precocious into the nighttime arsenic teams worked to bring the concern nether control.

Rajasthan main minister Bhajanlal Sharma directed lawman main curate Dr Prem Chand Bairwa and MLA Kailash Verma to sojourn the tract and measure the situation. Jaipur District Collector and different elder officials besides headed to the location, PTI reported.Dr Bairwa, successful a station connected X, confirmed that alleviation and rescue efforts were underway adjacent Sawarda culvert successful the Mojmabad area. “Police, administration, and occurrence section teams are engaged successful alleviation and rescue operations, and efforts to power the occurrence are ongoing,” helium wrote.

Speaking to quality bureau ANI en way to the mishap site, Dr Bairwa said that preliminary reports suggested the motortruck carrying state cylinders was struck from down by different vehicle. “This is what caused the accident. The occurrence has been brought nether control. According to the administration's report, determination person been nary casualties. Ambulance is astatine the spot,” helium said.

In December past year, a akin calamity occurred connected the aforesaid Jaipur-Ajmer road erstwhile an LPG tanker collided with a motortruck adjacent Bhankrota, sparking a monolithic occurrence that killed 19 radical and turned a agelong of the roadworthy into an inferno.