Archive · 9 Oct 2026
Oxygen Cylinder Explosion Kills Patient, Injures Two in Odisha
An ambulance in Odisha caught fire after an oxygen cylinder inside it exploded.
The ambulance was carrying a patient to another facility.
The patient died, and two other people were hurt by falling pieces of the ambulance roof.
Fire crews came to the scene.
The article also reports a separate bus fire in Karnataka.
That fire was blamed on a short circuit, and the people on board got out safely.
An oxygen cylinder exploded inside a private ambulance at Udala College in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district.
The patient being transported died, and two people were injured by falling metal parts from the ambulance roof.
Hospital security in-charge SK Mirza said the patient was being referred at about 8:45 when the cylinder exploded as it was turned on.
Fire tenders arrived after the ambulance caught fire; further details about the Odisha incident were awaited.
In a separate incident in Karnataka, a short-circuit fire gutted about 80% of a sleeper bus, but its passengers escaped without injury.
- Who
- A patient died and two people were injured in the ambulance incident.
- What
- An oxygen cylinder exploded inside a private ambulance, which then caught fire.
- When
- At about 8:45; the article does not specify the date.
- Where
- At Udala College in Mayurbhanj district, Odisha.
- Why
- SK Mirza said the explosion occurred when the oxygen cylinder was turned on; the cause of the explosion was not otherwise specified.
- Odisha incident location
- Udala College, Mayurbhanj district
- Vehicle
- Private ambulance
- Reported time
- About 8:45
- Odisha casualties
- One patient died; two people were injured
- Reported trigger
- The oxygen cylinder exploded when it was turned on, according to SK Mirza
- Separate Karnataka incident
- A short-circuit fire gutted roughly 80% of a private sleeper bus near Mumbalu village in Sagar taluk; no casualties were reported