Cylinder blast kills minor boy in Ludhiana

An 11-year-old-boy was killed and two others were injured, one of them critically, after a gas cylinder exploded at workshop here Sunday, police said.

The incident took place at a motorcycle mechanic's workshop in the Giaspura locality, they said. The deceased, Amit, was the son of the workshop's owner Jatinder Yadav, police said.

The boy died on the spot while the injured were rushed to a hospital, they said.