India, July 9 -- Videos of LPG cylinders floating in a river after being swept away by floodwaters in Maharashtra have surfaced on social media. It was triggered by severe waterlogging at a Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited bottling plant.

The videos that are going viral also show locals risking their lives to collect the cylinders from the raging waters.

"Due to heavy rainfall in the area, approximately 3,000 LPG cylinders (some filled with gas and some empty) were washed away from the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited Patalganga LPG Bottling Plant, located at Plot No. E-1/7, Additional MIDC, Chawane, Patalganga, Taluka Panvel, District Raigad, and drifted into the Patalganga River," district information officer of Raigad d...