One killed, three others injured in fire

At least one woman was killed and three others of the family injured when a cooking gas cylinder burst at a government quarters in the state capital here today, the police said.
The incident took place at the residence of one Chandramani Nayak, an employee of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), at around noon.
The deceased was the wife of Nayak while his son-in-law and a neighbour sustained critical burn injuries. Nayak also sustained injuries and they were admitted to a private hospital.
The nine-year-old daughter of Chandramani, who escaped the accident narrowly, said she ran away from the room after seeing fire in the kitchen room.

The fire brigade officials rescued two girls from the house, said T K Babu, assistant fire officer, Bhubaneswar.
Nayak's mother also escaped unhurt as she was in another room during the mishap, the fire officials said.

According to Namdeo, "The 'killer factory' was set up and
run in Bhopal with much help from the US government. And now the US government 'is sheltering' both Dow Chemical and (now defunct) Union Carbide by refusing to serve the Bhopal court's notices to Dow.
"This year, within one month, 127 thousand people wrote to the US President's office asking that the Department of Justice serve the notice on Dow Chemical, and all we got in response was an apology for deliberate inaction," he claimed.

He said this "indifference" of US has prompted them to decide to burn the flag of that country along with the logos of Dow Chemical and DuPont.
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha's office-bearer Nawab Khan, Children Against Dow-Carbide leader Safreen Khan and Bhopal Group for Information and Action's Rachna Dingra also echoed similar concerns and ire.
Thousands of people had died and lakhs were maimed on the intervening night of December 2-3 in 1984 after toxic gas spewed from the Union Carbide Factory.