Updated On: 05 February, 2014 12:16 PM IST | | Richa Pinto
<p>A couple in a Nerul apartment replaced an empty LPG cylinder with a filled one faultily, due to which gas started leaking; the blast occurred when a family member tried to switch off the electricity supply</p>

It was supposed to be a simple job of replacing an empty cylinder with a filled one. But, things went horribly wrong for a family in a Nerul apartment. The incident occurred at the CIDCO-built Panchratna society in Sector 16, Nerul.

Around 11 pm, Shalaka Tondwalkar and her husband replaced the empty cylinder with a new, filled one. However, they didn’t place the regulator properly and gas started leaking