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Sascha Wil­son

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has in­struct­ed the Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um (NP) Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny to con­duct an in­quiry in­to the death of 47-year-old Ria George. George, a su­per­mar­ket su­per­vi­sor from Debe, died on Sat­ur­day af­ter suf­fer­ing third-de­gree burns to 32 per cent of her body dur­ing an ex­plo­sion, al­leged­ly caused by a leak­ing 20 lb LPG cylin­der. The in­ci­dent oc­curred in her kitchen al­most two months ago.

When asked about the in­ci­dent, Mooni­lal told Guardian Me­dia that he took note of the re­ports in the me­dia and asked NP’s chair­man Arnold Ram to con­duct an in­quiry in­to the mat­ter “and to re­port to us at the min­istry in terms of any find­ings that they may have, whether or not this may or may not in­volve any tech­ni­cal mat­ter in terms of NP and their process­es.”