Two injured in gas cylinder blast at a venue to be visited by UP CM

Lucknow, Nov 30 (IANS) An hour before Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath arrived in Gonda to inaugurate a wrestling championship, two persons were injured in a gas cylinder blast at the venue, police said. The incident took place at Nandinagar. The injured were labourers working at the event venue. One of them is in a critical condition, sources said. The injured sustained serious burns and were rushed to a nearby medical facility. An official told IANS that for the inauguration, the organizers had hired a team to inflate balloons. The accident took place as the two workers were inflating the balloons that were to be released at the inauguration of the sports event. A probe has been ordered as it was being viewed as a serious security lapse ahead of the Chief Minister's arrival.
--IANS md/prs