Jaipur, Oct. 9 -- A 36-year-old man was killed after a tanker vehicle carrying transformer oil collided with a truck carrying over 300 LPG cylinders on the Ajmer-Jaipur highway near Mokhampura on Tuesday night, leading to a massive explosion, police said on Wednesday. According to Deepak Khandelwal, deputy superintendent of police, Dudu circle, "The incident took place at around 10pm. The driver of the tanker was charred to death. It was heading towards Haryana's Panipat from Ajmer and hit the truck from behind after the tanker driver oversped and lost control as a result. The truck was parked at a dhaba beside the highway." Khandelwal added that the police suspected that the tanker driver, Ramraj Meena, was trying to allegedly avoid an RTO vehicle. Meena tried to escape, said the DSP, but failed as the flames from the explosion caught on to the cabin of the tanker and also partially affected five other vehicles nearby. The occupants of the other vehicles were subsequently rescued by locals, he added. The driver of the truck, Shahrukh, was inside the dhaba when the accident occurred and survived as a result, although a passerby was injured and subsequently taken to hospital, added the DSP. "Moments after the fire broke out, a series of powerful blasts followed as the cylinders exploded one after another. All the 350 cylinders in my truck burst in succession, scattering debris and metal shells up to 500 meters away into nearby fields," said the driver of the truck, Shahrukh. Eye-witnesses said the explosions were so intense that the sound could be heard up to 10 kilometres away. The blasts continued for nearly two hours before firefighters managed to bring the inferno under control after a gruelling four-hour operation. "Around 15 fire tenders were deployed at the scene that brought the fire under control by 3 am," said DSP Khandelwal. Meanwhile, traffic on both sides of the busy highway was halted immediately after the explosions, and the stretch remained closed for nearly five hours, said the DSP. It was reopened on Wednesday. "There were two people in the tanker including the deceased driver. We are searching for the another person who is absconding," Bairwa told the reporters. The deceased driver's body was also sent for an autopsy while an FIR was also being lodged for negligent driving, said police....