Morning after Mother’s Day bash, gas leak wreaks havoc on Khar family

Updated On: 16 May, 2023 07:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Suraj Pandey

6 of family sustain severe burn injuries in fire sparked by leak

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The victims’ house at Madhala Pada on Monday. Pic/Satej Shinde

Hours after they celebrated Mother’s Day, six members of a family landed up in the hospital with severe burn injuries after a fire broke out in their Khar West residence due to a gas leak on Monday morning. The adults are recuperating at the Bhabha Hospital ICU but two children, who sustained over 50 per cent burns, are being treated at Kasturba hospital. The matriarch of the family, Sakubai Shivbabu Jaiswal, 65; her son Sunil, 29; daughter-in-law Priyanka Jaiswal, 26; grandson Prathamesh Jaiswal, 6; granddaughter Viyeshka Vikas Chavan, 7; and a relative Nikita Suresh Mandalik, 26, were asleep inside the house—which is situated in a chawl at Madhala Pada on Govind Patil Marg—when the blaze broke out.

Prathamesh, Priyanka, Sunil and Nikita