UAE – An Asian domestic worker died and two others injured in an explosion caused by a gas leak in the kitchen of a villa in Al Jarf area, Ajman. The loud boom of the explosion caused panic in the residential area and also damaged the villa severely. Rashid Muglad, Director-General of the Ajman Civil Defence, said their operations room received a call, reporting the loud sound of the explosion. A team of firefighters and a rescue unit from Al Jarf fire station were dispatched and reached the site. The leak occurred in the gas cylinder inside the kitchen, when it collapsed while cooking was underway. The rescue team removed two domestic workers from under the rubble, but the third had died in the spot. The police rushed the surviving domestic worker to Khalifa Hospital. The civil defence has handed over the site to the forensic department to investigate the cause of the leak and subsequent explosion. “The strong impact of the explosion caused the walls of the kitchen to collapse over the workers, when they were carrying out domestic work” he said.
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