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Uttar Pradesh News: In a tragic incident, a LPG cylinder blast left a mother and her three children dead in a village of Deoria district in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday morning.
According to reports, an LPG cylinder exploded at a house in Dumri village of Deoria district, killing a woman and her three children. They said the explosion was so loud that it woke up the entire neighbourhood and called the police after realising that a tragedy had occurred.
As per the police, the tragic incident occurred at around 4 am in Dumri village located within the Bhaluani police station limits when the woman, identified as Aarti Devi, was preparing morning tea for the family.
Shivshankar Gupta, the deceased woman’s husband, was getting ready to step out of the house and tea was being prepared when the gas cylinder exploded, the police said.
Besides Aarti Devi (42), the couple’s daughters — Aanchal (14) and Srishti (11) — and son Kundan (12) were killed in the incident, they added.
Senior officials arrived in the village after the incident and the bodies were sent for post-mortem, police said, adding that forensic and fire department teams are also at the spot.
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