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BJP leader, 2 others injured in cylinder blast in UP’s Unnao

BJP leader Shrikant Gautam and two others were critically injured in a blast that took place when a gas cylinder was thrown off a truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao

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A BJP leader and two others were critically injured in a blast that took place when a gas cylinder was thrown off a truck here in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning.

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According to reports, BJP district President Shrikant Gautam and two others were going to Lucknow to attend a meeting when they stopped at a roadside eatery. They were injured after an explosion took place when a driver threw a gas cylinder, which had caught fire, off the vehicle parked nearby.

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The injured have been admitted to the Trauma Centre in the King George's Medical University (KGMU) where their condition was said to be stable.

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Eyewitnesses said that pieces of the gas cylinder had pierced into the face and neck of the victims.

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