Gas leak fire injures nine of a family

KOHAT: At least nine of a family including minors and women received serious burn injuries when a house caught fire due to gas leakage on Monday morning here in Dhoda village in the outskirts of the city.
Locals of the village informed two rooms of a house caught fire when his wife lit a match to prepare tea for her family.

Locals told that a large amount of gas had leaked the whole night and two rooms of the house caught fire all of a sudden resulting in injuring nine members of the family. The injured were shifted to Peshawar in critical conditions while one of them is said to have been  shifted to Karachi.

The people of the area and the affected family has appealed the government to extend them financial help as the head of the family is poor and cannot afford heavy expenses of nine injured of his family.

It is to be mentioned here that incidents of gas leakage in the sister districts of Karak and Kohat have become a routine matter due to lack of awareness about proper use of gas inside houses. More than a dozen incidents of the same nature have caused deaths and injuries to the residents but still the authorities concerned seems to have turned a deaf ear to the situation and no steps could be seen to prevent more incidents of the same kind and rarely take notice of the complaint of gas leakage is made. 

One killed, 4 minors injured, Asad Khan Jadoon adds from Abbottabad: An Afghan balloon seller was killed while filling balloons when his gas cylinder blew up in Jadoon Plaza on Mansehra Road.

Four children and a passerby were also injured in the incident. The injured children were identified as Shahmir s/o Sheraz of Jhangi syidann, Bazik ijaz s/o M Ijaz of officer colony Nasirullall and Muhammad Zaheer who were rushed to Ayub medical complex for medical treatment, while dead body of Habibullah was delivered to the persons with him he shared a residence..

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