Picnicker killed on New Year's Day

A picnicker was killed and two others injured when a 5 kg cylinder burst at Adina in West Bengal's Malda district on New Year's Day.

The accident took place when the cylinder, which was being used by a picnic group, caught fire suddenly and one of the picknickers picked it up and threw it away in panic, police said.

The cylinder fell on a picnicker of another group nearby and burst killing the 23-year-old on the spot, they said.

The dead and the injured were identified as residents of Harirampur area.