Rakesh George nev­er thought the sto­ries he heard about leak­ing do­mes­tic gas tanks would one day be­come his own tragedy. Now, af­ter los­ing his wife, su­per­mar­ket su­per­vi­sor Ria George, weeks af­ter suf­fer­ing burns dur­ing an ex­plo­sion in their kitchen, he wants the gas com­pa­ny to take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.

Forty-sev­en-year-old Ria had been ward­ed at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal since the in­ci­dent, and on Sat­ur­day passed away around 11 am.

Re­call­ing the fate­ful day in Au­gust, he said that around 5 am, his wife woke up to pre­pare lunch for them to take to work. They both worked at MS Food City Su­per­mar­ket.