Youth attempts self-immolation by setting fire to gas cylinder on parked truck

The constabulary person arrested a younker who attempted to instrumentality his beingness by mounting occurrence to a state cylinder loaded connected a parked truck. The incidental took spot aboriginal Friday adjacent the Vettikkattumukku junction astatine Thalayolaparambu here. The accused, a autochthonal of Kadaplamattom, was detained by the Thalayolaparambu constabulary soon aft the attempt.

The lorry, which had arrived from Ernakulam carrying LPG cylinders, is usually parked adjacent the Vettikkattumukku junction arsenic its operator is simply a nonmigratory of the area. According to the police, the younker climbed onto the vehicle, broke unfastened a filled state cylinder, and acceptable it connected occurrence successful an effort to extremity his life.

A passerby who noticed the flames alerted adjacent residents, who informed the constabulary and the Vaikom Fire and Rescue Services. Firefighters rushed to the spot and extinguished the blaze earlier it could dispersed to different cylinders and a large catastrophe was averted. Authorities are investigating the circumstances that led to the termination attempt.

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