Punjab: 4 dead, 36 injured in blast at cold store in Sangrur

Four people died while 36 were injured in a blast at a potato cold store in Sangrur’s Dhuri city Friday afternoon. The store was competely damaged while the roof was blown off in the blast. The blast occurred at the Guru Nanak Cold store located near the Dhuri flyover. Following the incident, teams of National Disaster Response force (NDRF) was called from Bathinda who took out the injured workers out from the debris. A JCB machine was used in recovery operation. Though APS Virk- DC Sangrur has ordered an inquiry in this case, but preliminary information revealed that blast occurred in the pipeline of an air conditioner in the cold store due to which triggered the incident.