Elderly Victim of Gas Bottle Explosion in Bulgaria's Devnya Dies

Society | December 3, 2007, Monday // 00:00

The 52-year-old woman, who was injured in a gas bottle explosion in Bulgaria's town of Devnya, along with her four grandchildren, died of severe burns in a hospital on Monday.

Dimitrichka Todorova, who suffered 70% burns, passed away about a week after her granddaughter Evelina, 6 and grandson Rossen, 4.

The other two kids involved, both at the age of 10, have also been hospitalised as the condition of both of them is already stable.

The explosion occurred as a result of wrong usage of the gas bottle by the eldest victim.

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