2 Children Dead After Blast At Illegal Gas Refilling Shop In UP: Cops

After receiving information, the firefighters reached the spot and brought the fire under control, but no one was able to go inside due to the heavy smoke, police said.

Two children died due to suffocation and burning following an explosion in an illegal gas refilling shop in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Tuesday, police said.

The fire broke out in the shop in Koyla Bazar in the Adampur police station area following a suspicious explosion in a gas cylinder, they said.

Gas refilling work, according to police, was being done illegally in this shop.