A maniac allegedly set himself on fire inside of his family’s Queens home, sparking a massiveexplosion that left eight officers and at least four other people hurt, according to police and sources.
Police responded to a reported domestic dispute involving a knife at a home on 130th Street in South Ozone Park around 2:42 a.m. Thursday — but as officers approached the front door, there was an explosion that was “so powerful it knocked them off their feet,” Assistant Chief of Queens South, Christopher M. Mcintosh told reporters.
The blast sparked a massive, five-alarm inferno that quickly spread throughout the two-and-a-half-story private home and extended to the home next door before the building dramatically collapsed.
Suspect Anrup Parasram — who remains unaccounted for— was allegedly intoxicated and armed with a knife when he forced his way into the basement apartment, where his wife, daughter and two grandchildren live, police said…