12 killed, many injured in massive blast in Pakistan’s Karachi city

Last Updated on February 5, 2023 by Admin

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At least 12 people were killed and an equal number injured on Friday when a massive blast, apparently triggered by a gas explosion in a sewage system, ripped through the premises of a private bank situated on it, according to media reports.


Most of the casualties are reportedly customers and staff present inside the bank which was built on top of a covered sewage channel in Karachi’s Shershah area and collapsed following the explosion, the Express Tribune newspaper reported.





Officials said that the cause of the explosion is being investigated as it cannot be ascertained whether it was a gas pipeline or a build-up of methane that took place inside the sewage system which led to the explosion.


“It might be a sewer gas as the bank was constructed on a nullah. It is too early to say whether it was a gas line or a sewer explosion. We are investigating,” a senior police official was quoted as saying in the report.


According to a report in Geo TV, eyewitnesses claim that there are many people who are buried underneath the debris of the building.


Two excavators have been called to the site to remove the debris and rescue any persons trapped there.


A bomb disposal unit (BDU) has also arrived at the location which has been cordoned off, the Geo TV report said.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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