India, Oct. 8 -- One person was killed after a massive fire broke out on the Jaipur-Ajmer highway near Rajasthan's Maukhampura in Dudu late Tuesday night after a chemical tanker crashed into a stationary truck loaded with LPG cylinders, triggering a series of powerful explosions.

According to police, the impact set the tanker's cabin ablaze, and the flames quickly spread to the LPG cylinders on the truck. Within moments, a series of powerful blasts followed as the cylinders exploded one after another. Nearly 200 cylinders burst in succession, scattering debris and metal shells up to 500 meters away into nearby fields.

Residents said the explosions were so intense that the sound could be heard up to ten kilometres away. The blasts contin...