India, March 11 -- A 22-year-old motorcyclist, Aman Harishankar Saroj, who suffered severe burns after a gas pipeline fire in Andheri East on Sunday, succumbed to his injuries on Monday morning. Saroj was undergoing treatment for 60% burn injuries at the National Burns Centre (NBC) in Navi Mumbai, where he was declared dead at 11:30 am.

The fire erupted in the early hours of Sunday at Sher-E-Punjab Society near a Gurdwara at Takshila after a Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) pipeline, reportedly damaged during unauthorised digging, caught fire. The Mumbai Fire Brigade received an alert at 1:35 am and classified it as a Level 1 (minor) fire.

In a statement, MGL attributed the incident to "JCB impact during unauthorised, uncontrolled digging," ...