A calamity occurred on the highway from Jaipur to Ajmer where a truck carrying chemicals hit an LPG tanker along with many other vehicles near a petrol pump in Bhankrota area of Jaipur leading to at least six deaths and 41 injured. The impact cause a huge explosion that led to the burner that supplied the fuel station, which caught immediately, burning other vehicles in the vicinity and affecting the area severely.
supplying about twenty fire trucks, which wereing used to put out the huge fire. There were huge flames and column of smoke coming out of the scene as fire fighters continued to struggle in putting out the fire.
It burnt three vehicles at the station and other adjacent buildings were considerably damaged. The aggrieved persons were immediately rushed to the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur for treatment.
Many are in critical conditions, said the MEA. Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma came to the hospital and personally supervising the provision of proper medical care to the injured and expressed his condolences. It was in a statement that he made on X (formerly Twitter) where he posted, “Indeed, it hurts me greatly that so many people have died in this gas tanker inferno on the Jaipur-Ajmer National Highway”. When I got wind of the occurrence, I proceeded to SMS Hospital and told the doctors to offer immediate treatment and treat the affected.”
He also gave the public an assurance that rescue operations were still under way while noting: “Local authorities and emergency services are working round the clock.” I have a word for the souls of the deceased and wish strength for their loved ones. Hereas the response May the injured recover quickly.
Additional information came from Jaipur District Magistrate Jitendra Soni where he said that as many as 36 to 40 vehicles were engulfed in the fire. The fire has subdued with one or two cars still engulfed in flames. Measures for providing full relief are still being undertaken and currently over forty one have sustained some form of injury. He said that in his interview with the media: ‘The fire was as a result of multiple vehicle accidend.
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