India, Nov. 23 -- A 20-year-old man died and two others were hospitalised after inhaling toxic fumes during an accident involving chemicals inside a shanty-like structure in Bhangarwadi, MIDC, Andheri east, on Saturday afternoon.

The deceased has been identified as Ahmed Saida Husain, 20, while Saba Saida Husain, 17, and Naushad Ansari, 28, are in critical condition in the ICU at Holy Spirit Hospital in Andheri.

Police said the incident took place at 4.55pm in Bhangarwadi, an area that houses scrap units. The shanty where the accident took place belonged to Saba Husain, and is in front of Nancy Madarsa in Subhash Nagar.

"When Ahmed Saida Husain mixed sodium sulphide in water to prepare a solution to clean old items collected by him, an...