A man died and six others sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder explosion at a generator shop on M.A. Jinnah Road, Karachi.
Karachi: Gas cylinder blast leaves one dead, six injured in Karachi. Rescue sources said the explosion took place in a generator shop near MA Jinnah Road, near the Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam. Resultantly, one person lost his life and six others suffered burn injuries.
The injured people have been shifted to the hospital.
On being informed of the incident, the Rescue and police teams reached the spot for the rescue operation.
In a separate incident, a car caught fire near Nursery Flyover on Shahrah-e-Faisal.
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The car riders remained safe as the nearby people along with the rescue team, managed to douse the fire.
Karachi is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh. It is the largest city in Pakistan and the 12th largest in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast and formerly served as the capital of Pakistan. Ranked as a beta-global city, it is Pakistan’s premier industrial and financial centre, with an estimated GDP of over $200 billion (PPP) as of 2021. Karachi is a metropolitan city and is considered Pakistan’s most cosmopolitan city, and among the country’s most linguistically, ethnically-, and religiously-diverse regions, as well as one of the country’s most progressive and socially liberal cities.
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