Hoshiarpur, Sept. 23 -- A month after an LPG tanker blast claimed seven lives and damaged multiple shops and residences in Mandiala village, residents are struggling to come to terms with the tragedy.

Though the government has released compensation for kin of the deceased, the assessment of damage to property is still going on.

Dilbir Singh, a truck driver, who lost both his parents in the massive fire that engulfed their house after the blast, reveals that for days on, he was not able to move the cots on which his parents died. "Just the sight of those charred cots was traumatising - a constant reminder of how they were burnt alive," he says. Grieving, Dilbir is trying to clean up the house as he has nowhere else to go.

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