ISLAMABAD, Jan 25 (NNN-APP) – Four children were killed and two women injured, in an explosion caused by gas leakage, in a house in Quetta city of Pakistan’s south-west Balochistan province, today, local reports said.
The incident happened when one member of the family tried to light a heater, without realising the accumulation of the leaking gas in the room, the reports said.
The house partially collapsed in the incident, and a big fire erupted due to which the kids and the women got serious burn injuries, and were shifted to a nearby hospital by rescue teams, the reports added.
The children succumbed to their injuries, whereas the critically injured women are being treated at the hospital, said the reports.
Quetta is currently under an extreme cold wave and the mercury drops to minus three degrees Celsius at night and early hours of the morning, therefore, gas heaters are widely used to keep homes warm.– NNN-APP
