Salyan, Jan. 14 -- A fire and subsequent cooking gas cylinder explosions at Arki in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, India, killed nine Nepalis from Salyan district. Nine members of two families from Takura in ward 2 of Siddhakumakh Rural Municipality were killed in the incident on Monday, leaving the entire village into mourning.

The victims were migrant workers who had moved to India in search of livelihood. According to relatives and eyewitnesses, the fire broke out while the families were asleep upstairs, above a shop stocked with gas cylinders and household goods. The subsequent explosions left the bodies so badly mutilated that identification became extremely difficult.

The deceased have been identified as Dhan Bahadur BK, 33, ...