LAKHIMPUR KHERI, April 4 -- Amid the ongoing crisis in West Asia that caused disruption in the cooking gas supply across India before the government stepped in to improve it, some unidentified burglars struck at Karuna Bharat Gas agency godown located on Makanpur road under Lakhimpur Kheri's Palia Kotwali limits and decamped with 108 LPG cylinders on Friday night, police said on Saturday.

Jitendra Singh Parihar, deputy superintendent of police, Palia, confirmed that the police received a complaint about the theft at Palia Kotwali and that a probe into the incident is in progress.

Gas agency owner Amit Singh told HT that the burglary was discovered on Saturday morning when Ritesh, a gas agency employee, arrived there to open the godown a...