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As videos of leak­ing liq­ue­fied pe­tro­le­um gas (LPG) cylin­ders con­tin­ue to cir­cu­late on so­cial me­dia, an­oth­er fam­i­ly is prepar­ing to take le­gal ac­tion over the death of a loved one from an ex­plo­sion.

Rakesh George, whose wife Ria died on Sep­tem­ber 30 af­ter suf­fer­ing third-de­gree burns from an LPG ex­plo­sion, told Guardian Me­dia that he has al­ready re­tained at­tor­neys. His de­ci­sion fol­lows a sim­i­lar move by Bri­an Joseph, whose son Be­vaughn died af­ter a gas cylin­der ex­plod­ed at their Pe­nal home.

Ria, 47, a su­per­mar­ket su­per­vi­sor from Dig­i­ty Vil­lage, Debe, suf­fered burns to 32 per cent of her body, al­leged­ly caused by a leak­ing 20 lb LPG cylin­der. She fought for her life for weeks be­fore suc­cumb­ing to mul­ti­ple or­gan fail­ure.