This is the moment a bundle of party balloons explode in a fireball engulfing a lift full of people.
The gas-filled balloons suddenly caught fire and blew up just seconds after a man carrying them entered a lift inside a building at Amol Tower, in Goregaon, a suburb of Mumbai, India, on Monday night.
Himani Tapriya, a 21-year-old student, suffered burns on her arms, neck and stomach following the explosion.
Raju Kumar Mahato, 32, a delivery man who was couriering the balloons to the residential building for a birthday party, also suffered burns.
But the pair and a third person in the lift remarkably all escaped without major injury.
CCTV footage shows Ms Tapriya entering the lift with a suitcase before the delivery man walks in with the bundle of balloons.
Another man, dressed in black, enters moments before an inferno suddenly engulfs the lift.
They all run out of the lift before the door closes while the flames continue to rage.
Police have since launched a negligence case against the owner of the shop who sold the balloons, who they accuse of failing to provide safe instructions to the delivery man.
‘Jaiswal has been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Section 125 (negligence) and has been served a notice,’ police said.
‘He did not provide safety instructions to the delivery person, which led to the incident.
‘Mahato was carrying around 10 to 12 gas-filled balloons that were ordered by a building resident, Arpit Jain, for a birthday celebration in his family’.
Ms Tapriya, from Surat, a city in the state of Gujarat, said: ‘I had just arrived at the building from Surat and took the lift to go to my aunt’s flat when a person carrying around a dozen balloons in his hand exploded, causing serious injuries to my right arm, neck and stomach.’
The explosion follows another incident which saw a bunch of balloons blowing up into a fireball in a birthday girl’s face.
Nozza Usmanova, from Bukhara, Uzbekistan, was surprised by friends with a delivery of hydrogen-filled inflatables and a cake when the candle touched one of them causing a huge blast.
CCTV footage showed her waiting by the entrance of a shop to receive her gifts moments before the decorations ignited.
Seconds after she greeted her relatives, a woman handed over a cake with cold-fire candles that Nozza quickly blew out.
But the hot tips still caused the balloons to ignite.
As the large flames engulfed nearly the doorway, the birthday girl and her guests rushed out of the building.
The fire lasted only a split second, and nobody was hurt.
