<span style="color: #222222;">In Odisha, at least eight persons were injured, two of them critically, in a blast in a petrol pump in the heart of the capital city of Bhubaneswar today.<br />'' <br />''The injured have since been admitted to the hospital.<br />'' <br />'' According to the police,  the blast took place in an LPG tank due to which a massive fire engulfed the petrol pump in the afternoon today. The raging fire has since been doused.<br />'' <br />'' However, the blast was intense enough to cause damages of varying degrees in the nearby areas besides devastating the petrol pump itself.<br />'' <br />'' Union petroleum and natural gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has wished early recovery to the injured while ordering an enquiry into the incident.<br />''<br />''The Commissionerate Police too have registered a case and are investigating the mishap.</span>