{"id":37086,"date":"2023-12-18T22:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T22:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/3-dead-17-wounded-as-gas-cylinder-blast-causes-building-collapse-in-karachis-machhar-colony-officials\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T22:02:03","slug":"3-dead-17-wounded-as-gas-cylinder-blast-causes-building-collapse-in-karachis-machhar-colony-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/3-dead-17-wounded-as-gas-cylinder-blast-causes-building-collapse-in-karachis-machhar-colony-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead, 17 wounded as gas cylinder blast causes building collapse in Karachi\u2019s Machhar Colony: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least three people died while 17 others were wounded on Monday after a residential building located in Karachi\u2019s Machhar Colony collapsed due to a gas cylinder explosion, police and rescue officials said.<\/p>\n

Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed confirmed the casualties and injuries to Dawn.com<\/em>. She said the condition of four wounded persons was critical.<\/p>\n

South Deputy Inspector General of Police Syed Asad Raza told Dawn.com<\/em> that the blast occurred because of \u201cgas cylinder leakage and mishandling\u201d inside a gas cylinder shop situated in the two-storey residential building at around 10:30am.<\/p>\n

Resultantly, he said three people died while around 17 others were wounded, some with serious injuries.<\/p>\n

The whole building was destroyed, he said, adding that 26 cylinders were taken away by a team of the bomb disposal squad to an open area for safe handling.<\/p>\n

Dr Syed said that three bodies were brought to Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK). She said a total of 21 persons were brought to the hospital with some of them facing suffocation issues and breathing problems.<\/p>\n

The police surgeon said among those was a four-five-month-old baby who was recovered from the debris but miraculously did not receive any injury. The surgeon said that two minors and a girl were among five persons who also suffered burns.<\/p>\n

Dr Sabir Memon, executive director of the CHK trauma centre, told Dawn.com<\/em> that among the four critically injured was a three-month-old boy who received head injuries.<\/p>\n

He said the three other critically injured men were shifted to the intensive care unit.<\/p>\n

In October, two people were injured<\/a> in a huge explosion that occurred inside a pizza joint in Gulshan-i-Iqbal. The police had blamed the accumulation of cooking gas for the explosion.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least three people died while 17 others were wounded on Monday after a residential building located in Karachi\u2019s Machhar Colony collapsed due to a gas cylinder explosion, police and rescue officials said. Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed confirmed the casualties and injuries to Dawn.com. She said the condition of four wounded persons was critical. 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