{"id":3476,"date":"2026-10-29T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:03:48","slug":"eight-killed-four-injured-in-ambulance-oxygen-cylinder-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3476","title":{"rendered":"Eight killed, four injured in ambulance oxygen cylinder blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>At least eight people, including a pregnant woman, were killed and four others seriously injured after an oxygen cylinder exploded while being replaced in an ambulance at a hospital in Nagarparkar\u2019s Dano Dhandhal area, rescue sources said on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The deceased included a patient, attendants and hospital employees. Several bodies were badly burnt in the fire, making identification difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue sources said the incident occurred at a People\u2019s Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI) ambulance parked at a Basic Health Unit Plus in Dano Dhandal.<\/p>\n<p>An explosion occurred while an oxygen cylinder was being replaced, triggering a fire that engulfed the ambulance and killed eight people.<\/p>\n<p>The assistant commissioner said the deceased included a pregnant woman, two attendants and four hospital staff members.<\/p>\n<p>Four people were also injured and shifted to Civil Hospital Mithi for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports identified three of the deceased as ambulance driver Ishaq Thebo, Jaswant and Pandhi Rajar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight people, including a pregnant woman, were killed and four others seriously injured after an oxygen cylinder exploded while being replaced in an ambulance at a hospital in Nagarparkar\u2019s Dano Dhandhal area, rescue sources said on Thursday. The deceased included a patient, attendants and hospital employees. Several bodies were badly burnt in the fire, making identification difficult. The rescue sources said the incident occurred at a People\u2019s Primary Healthcare Initiative (PPHI) ambulance parked at a Basic Health Unit Plus in Dano Dhandal. An explosion occurred while an oxygen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}