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2 killed, two injured as oil tanker catches fire
    Ghaziabad, Aug 25 (PTI) At least two persons were killed
and as many injured when a furnace oil tanker caught fire
while they were welding it for leakage near RTO office in Kavi
Nagar area here.
    According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Ran Vijay
Singh, two charred bodies of the technicians beyond
recognition were recovered from the debris.
    Two other technicians, Nand Lal and Kshati Prasad, have
been hospitalised with severe burn injuries in Safdarjung
hospital in Delhi.
    The area has been cordoned-off as police are suspecting
more causalities, he said, adding that identities of the
deceased were not established yet.
    The rescue and search operation was on till the last
report came in.