ISLAMABAD, Dec 19 (NNN-APP) – At least three people were killed and around 12 others severely injured, yesterday, in a gas cylinder blast in a building in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, the rescue service said.
Salman Naseer, an official of the rescue organisation, Edhi Foundation, said that, the accident took place in Machar Colony area, when new gas cylinders were being shifted to a shop of cylinders, beneath a double-story residential building.
Soon after the blast, the building suddenly turned into rubble, he added.
The locals of the area immediately started rescuing the trapped people and were then joined by the rescue workers, Naseer said, adding that, up to 15 trapped people had been recovered while at least one was still under the rubble.
A search operation to rescue the possible presence of other trapped people under the rubble was underway, according to the rescue official.– NNN-APP