India, July 18 -- One person died and two others were injured when repairs to an empty chemical tanker caused an explosion in Mukund Nagar in Chembur East on Friday.

Police said the incident took place at 4.20pm, when welding work on the tanker was underway at a garage near an HPCL colony. The impact of the explosion was so great that the window panes of buildings in the colony shattered. The tanker had been emptied but may have still carried traces of methanol, or methyl alcohol, a highly flammable liquid, which it had transported.

The explosion injured three persons - the driver of the tanker and two persons workers doing the welding. All three were taken to the civic-run Sion Hospital, where the driver, Ram Mukut Mahesh Kanojia, 43, ...