Herstelling woman survives gas bottle explosion, suffers severe burns

He explained that at first his wife didn’t look as though she sustained any serious injury “but it is afterwards then we see the extent of the burns she got.”

The woman was hospitalised for one week and could not walk due to the extent of her injuries. She suffered second and third degree burns on her face, arms and feet.

“Me couldn’t walk because of the pain. My family them nah expect this, my mother, my sisters,” Jaiwantie said.

The couple opened their shop three years ago and lost millions in the explosion.

“In the shop alone goods, haberdashery we estimated about $2.4 million in losses, and to restore the shop it cost me $855,000,” Randolph said.

When the News Room visited on Monday, the shop had already been repaired and Jaiwantie was recovering and walking again. But the incident has left the family traumatised though thankful to be alive.

“Everybody was traumatised, everybody thought this lady lost her life. You see when God is with you, all things are possible. He was really in the shop with this lady at the time because she not supposed to survive that explosion,” Randolph said.

The shutters from the shop also ended up across the road and Randolph added: “Thank god nobody was passing and thank God nobody came to the shop to call.”

Randolph said he hopes more can be done to raise awareness about the safety of gas cylinders.