ISLAMABAD, Dec 19 (NNN-APP) – At least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured, in an explosion at the ground floor of a two-storey building in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, yesterday, police and hospital sources, said.
Ten bodies and 12 injured people have currently been registered on the hospital record, and most of the injured are in critical condition, after being seriously wounded in the incident, Muhammad Sabir Memon, chief operating officer of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Institute of Trauma, to which all the victims were shifted, told media.
In a statement, the Karachi police said that the explosion was due to leakage of gas in the building, containing a private bank and several other offices, according to the reports.
The building partially collapsed in the explosion, and several people are feared to be trapped inside the rubbles.
Rescue teams called in heavy machinery to remove the debris in order to find people.
Karachi is the provincial capital of Sindh. Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, expressed sorrow over the incident and directed police to investigate into the incident, keeping the possibility of terrorism into consideration.
Bomb disposal squad has arrived at the site for further investigation.– NNN-APP
