Kathmandu, Feb. 16: Nepali Congress leader Dr Chandra Bhandari who was injured in a cooking gas cylinder explosion last night, has been taken to Mumbai for further treatment. 

He was sent to the Mumbai-based National Skin Burn Hospital, in India.

According to the Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA), the Shree Airlines air ambulance carrying him to the Mumbai-based hospital left TIA at 3:15 PM today.

The House of Representatives (HoR) member and his mother Harikala Bhandari were injured when a cooking gas cylinder exploded in their house in Kathmandu on Wednesday night.