This Article is From Oct 23, 2011

Mother, children burnt to death after cylinder explodes

New Delhi: A 33 year-old-woman and her three children were burnt to death, when a leaking LPG cylinder caught fire and exploded in her house here, police said on Saturday.

The incident was reported around 9 p.m. Friday in north Delhi's Mahinder Park.

The woman was identified as Guddi and her children as Alok, 6, Sudeep, 4, and Brijesh, 4, said a police officer.

Guddi's husband Sadanand was boiling potatoes on the gas cooker when the leaking cylinder caught fire in his one-room tenement, the officer said.

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