Bengaluru, Aug. 20 -- Bengaluru's top cop, Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh, confirmed on Tuesday that two separate deadly incidents in the city over the past week were triggered by entirely different causes - one by a gas leak and the other by an electrical short circuit.

The first tragedy occurred on the morning of August 15 in Chinnayyanapalya, Adugodi, where a powerful blast inside a residence claimed the lives of three people, including two children. According to Singh, the explosion was caused by a cooking gas leak, The Times of India reported.

Investigators recovered an empty LPG cylinder from the house of A. Kasturi, who had reportedly received the cylinder just two days earlier. "It was intact and emptied when we recovered it ...