Gas cylinder explosion at Muridke bakery leaves 11 severely burned,
In a heart-wrenching incident, eight members of a family lost their lives, while 10 others sustained injuries as their van veered off the road and fell into a ditch near Babusar Top.
Two women were among eight killed on Friday when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine after colliding with a car near Babusar Top in the Diamer district of Gilgit Baltistan, rescue officials and an official said. At least 12 were reported to be injured. Chilas Assistant Commissioner Sadaqat Sada confirmed to Aaj News the cause of the incident. But the Balakot DSP claimed the car fell into a ravine after a stone placed to stop the car from moving at the ramp was removed.
At least four out of the 12 injured were said to be in critical condition. The track to the area is dangerous and drivers often could not control speeding, Aaj News correspondent said and added that often such accidents occurred due to overspeeding. The incident was reported at Ghatidas near the famous tourist attraction, according to rescue officials. They added that the vehicle that met with an accident was a hi-roof vehicle. Balakot DSP Saeed Jadoon told Aaj News that bodies were shifted to the basic health unit near the Naran Police check post while wounded persons were moved to Chilas hospital.
But he feared more deaths. Rescue officials, Mansehra police, and Chilas police were on the site for relief activities. footage showed that the van caught fire after falling into the ravine. The deceased people were coming to Naran from the Babusar Top and they belong to the same family. They were from Punjab’s Sahiwal, as per initial information. The local administration told Aaj News that it would take seven hours to shift the bodies to Mansehra Civil Hospital from where they would be handed over to their families in Sahiwal. The travelling time from Ghatidas to Naran is two hours and it takes three hours to arrive in Balakot and further one hour to reach Mansehra.
The famous Babusar Pass, which connects Gilgit Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was opened for traffic last month. It merits here to mention that the highway connecting Diamer and Mansehra via Naran remains closed for traffic from every October to June.
Earlier this year, a similar accident in the Shitial area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Upper Kohistan district killed at least 21 people and wounded 12. The accident occurred when a bus travelling from Ghizer to Rawalpindi collided with a car travelling in the opposite direction. Since it is a developing story, we will continue to update the story. The earlier version of the story did not mention the car-truck collision. We will update the story with the flow of information while checking the information.
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At least 11 people were severely burned when a gas cylinder exploded at a bakery on GT Road in Muridke on Friday.
As per the details garnered, the tragic incident occurred in Muridke when a gas cylinder exploded at a bakery on GT Road. The explosion was so powerful that it was heard from a distance, and the three-story bakery was completely reduced to rubble. Following the explosion, 11 individuals were severely wounded, and four of them are said to be in critical condition. Furthermore, the intense fire caused significant damage, resulting in the loss of goods worth millions of rupees. Rescue officials swiftly responded to the scene to assist the injured and control the situation.
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