Uttarakhand gas leak: 20 hospitalised due to breathing difficulty in Udham Singh Nagar

At least 20 people were hospitalised after they complained of breathing difficulty in Uttarakhand on Tuesday. 

According to the details, the incident was reported following a gas leak from a cylinder in Udham Singh Nagar district.

Commenting on the incident, police said the leakage at the Azad Nagar transit camp in Rudrapur was due to a torn pipe fixed to the approximately 40-50 litre capacity cylinder.

State Disaster Response Force personnel immediately moved the cylinder to a forest area to ward off any bigger accident, they said.

The exact gas in the cylinder is not yet known, they said.

Earlier on Monday, a fire broke out in an underground gas pipeline in the Parel area of Mumbai, a civic official said.