In December, El-Molla said Egypt imports about 50 percent of its total butane gas consumption, adding that the state subsidises the butane cylinder, which cost EGP 140 to produce.

Butane can be used for gas fires, geysers and for house lighting, and in the villages of Smalldole in Sussex, Stokesley near Middlesbrough and Hay in Brecknockshire, it has been applied to street ...

Two people have been seriously injured after a house was destroyed in an explosion that sounded 'like a nuclear bomb going off' - with hundreds of butane gas canisters pictured in the wreckage.