Explosions rock shopping area

All in a day's work: Firemen clearing the debris after the gas explosion while (inset) thick black smoke engulfs Jalan Taiping in Klang.

KLANG: The busy shopping enclave near the Centrepoint Complex here was rocked by a series of explosions when three gas cylinders suddenly blew up.

The cylinders, filled with ethylene gas for use in welding and the shaping and cutting of iron, were being transported in a Toyota Hilux.