Jharkhand Gas tanker accident: RIMS Ranchi team examines injured patients

Ranchi: In an unfortunate incident, a gas tanker overturned in Jharkhand's Dumka district, following which it exploded and caught fire. A high-level team from the burn unit of Ranchi's Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) reached Dumka on Sunday to examine the injured patients in an accident involving a gas tanker, an official said. 

One person was killed, and several others were injured as a gas tanker overturned after hitting a bus that was parked on the roadside in Jharkhand's Dumka district on October 27, following which it exploded and caught fire.

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At least 18 people received burn injuries in the incident. They are undergoing treatment at Dumka's Phulo-Jhano Medical College and Hospital, some 280 km from here.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, in a Twitter post on Saturday late night, said, "A high-level team of RIMS burn unit will go by helicopter tomorrow (Sunday) morning to examine the people injured in the gas tanker accident in Dumka's Hansdiha area."

He said, "Treatment of the injured persons is underway. If needed, all possible help will be provided by the government for their better treatment."

Dumka deputy commissioner (DC) Ravi Shankar Shukla told PTI that after reaching Dumka this morning, the team members examined the patients at PJMCH.

He said that as many as 18 people are undergoing treatment.

"Only one person is having around 25 percent burn injury. Conditions of the rest of the patients are stable," Shukla said.

The accident happened on State Highway 17 in Dhavatand area when the tanker was proceeding to Hansdiha.

After the tanker exploded, it caught fire that ravaged at least three buses that were parked nearby. Several trees were also burnt.

According to Superintendent of Police Amber Lakra, the incident occurred on State Highway 17 in the Dhavatand area near Hansdiha. The tanker was on its way to Haldia in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district when it overturned and exploded, catching fire, reports Zee News. 

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