ISLAMABAD, Sept 26 (NNN-APP) – The death toll from the cylinder explosion that took place in Pakistan’s southern Sukkur district on Saturday, rose to eight, after the five injured, died yesterday, hospital officials said.
A spokesperson of the Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences hospital of Sukkur, in southern Sindh province, said that, five critically injured people died during treatment, at the intensive care unit of the hospital.
According to the official, a total of eight people sustained injuries, including a child, in the cylinder blast at a shop of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Sukkur.
The injured were shifted to the hospital, where three of the wounded died during treatment on Saturday, while others succumbed to their injuries yesterday.
Police told local media that, the blast took place when the shop owner was transferring gas from a commercial cylinder to a domestic cylinder for a customer.– NNN-APP
