The Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) is re­mind­ing the pub­lic of crit­i­cal safe­ty steps to fol­low when han­dling LPG cylin­ders, fol­low­ing re­ports of an ex­plo­sion that re­sult­ed in the death of Ria George.

In ex­press­ing con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, NP ad­vised that once a cylin­der en­ters a cus­tomer’s busi­ness or res­i­den­tial re­mind a soapy wa­ter test should be per­formed at the con­nec­tions be­tween the reg­u­la­tor and the valve, the reg­u­la­tor and the hose and the hose and the stove, be­fore its use. NP fur­ther ad­vised cus­tomers that if a gas leak is sus­pect­ed, im­me­di­ate­ly dis­con­nect the c

NP not­ed that cus­tomers should re­port any is­sues or con­cerns re­lat­ed to LPG cylin­ders to the rel­e­vant dis­trib­u­tor or re­tail­er from which the cylin­der was sourced.