Watch: Heavy rain sends 3,000 LPG cylinders floating down river in Maharashtra's Raigad

Three thousand LPG cylinders were swept into the Patalganga river.

NAVI MUMBAI: Around 3,000 filled and empty LPG cylinders were swept away from an HP Gas bottling plant into the Patalganga river after heavy rain triggered flooding in a channel passing through the Rasayani industrial area, Raigad on Wednesday.Around 1,000 cylinders have been retrieved. The district administration urged residents to hand over any recovered cylinders to authorities.

ID@undefined Caption not available.ID@undefined Caption not available.ID@undefined Caption not available.Khalapur tahsildar Abhay Chavan said sudden flooding caused the incident.

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