The condition of one of the nine injured in Friday’s cylinder blast was said to be critical.
Doctors at the Mahabodhi Burns Care Centre, on the premises of State-run Victoria Hospital, said an eight-year-old child has suffered 45% burns, apart from respiratory burns.
The child’s mother, Kasturiamma, has suffered 35% burns, along with inhalation burns, and both of them were being monitored in the ICU, said Yogeshwarappa C.N., Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns at the hospital.
“We are evaluating the child for a head injury. We are closely monitoring them as both of them have suffered inhalation burns,” the doctor said.
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