Cylinder blast at RR Nagar chaat storage room injures three

Updated 27 October 2026

A cooking cylinder is suspected to have leaked inside a storage room used by a chaat seller near Pattanagere, in Rajarajeshwari Nagar (RR Nagar), south-west Bengaluru. When the room was opened at about 9.30 am on Saturday, 24 October 2026, there was a blast. Three people were hurt: the man who ran the stall, a woman from the house next door and a 9-year-old child. No death has been reported.

A shut room, a leaking cylinder, a door opened

The stall owner used the room to prepare pani puri. He went to open it at about 9.30 am. Police told PTI that gas escaping from a cooking cylinder may have set off the explosion, which is a first reading and not a finding. Two later reports go a step further. They say the gas probably leaked overnight, built up in the closed room, and that flames burst out when the door was opened. Neither of those accounts is attributed to a named officer.

The woman and the child live in the house next door. Police took the three to BGS Hospital, according to Kannada reports. Fire staff and police inspected the spot. One Kannada report says the blast shattered the cement sheets on a roof.

The detail that matters is the shut room. LPG is heavier than air, so a leak settles low and has nowhere to go when doors and windows are closed. The next person to walk in, switch on a light or strike a match finds a room full of gas.

Where the reports do not agree

Police told PTI the three were in stable condition. Kannada reports call the injuries serious. We found no hospital update by 27 October. The place is called a chaat shop, a storage room of the shop, a godown, a rented warehouse and, in one report, a house. One outlet puts the blast on Friday morning, but the others, and a video posted on the morning of 24 October, say Saturday. Nothing published says whether the cylinder was a domestic or a commercial one, who supplied it, or whether the premises had a licence for storing it. No FIR, fire department report or finding on the cause has been reported. The adults are not named here and the child is described by age only.

What a stall owner can do with the cylinder

The consumer guidance for LPG users on the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana website is plain on most of this. Our festival fire safety guide covers the home side of LPG, and the Noida shop fire in Sector 126 shows what happens when cylinders sit among small shops.

• Turn the regulator knob to OFF every night. The consumer guidance asks for this before you go to bed. A stall that shuts for the night is no different.
• Do not store a connected cylinder in a closed room. The same guidance says not to place a cylinder inside an enclosed compartment, and to keep it upright.
• Look at the hose. Replace a plain rubber tube with a Suraksha hose, check it for cracks and change it before the date printed on it.
• Find a leak without a flame. Do not use a match. Soap solution is meant for the bung and body of the cylinder only.
• If you smell gas in a room you have just opened, do not touch a switch or light a flame. Open the doors and windows, stay low and clear of the room, switch the regulator off if you can do it safely, and call your gas distributor or 112 and the fire station on 101.

Our Bengaluru safety guide lists the city’s emergency numbers and the fire stations nearest to you.

Tonight, before you pull the shutter down, turn the regulator knob to OFF, check the hose for a crack, and move any spare cylinder out of the closed storage room and away from the stove.