Hazaribag: Following several deaths due to kerosene blasts in Hazaribag, the district administration on Tuesday set up a testing laboratory at the collectorate building for speedy examination of kerosene samples.
Since February, at least six persons have died in kerosene blasts in different villages under sadar block and over a dozen have received serious injuries. In the latest such incident, a 40-year-old woman died on Sunday night.
Hazaribag SDO (Sadar) Vidya Bhushan Kumar said that earlier they were sending the samples to Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) lab in Khunti but the process was time-consuming. Hence, the IOCL was requested to provide a mobile van for testing in the district.