A man was killed while seven others sustained injuries when a gas cylinder exploded in the limits of Awami Colony police station on Monday. According to police and rescue sources, at around 11:05am, a gas cylinder exploded in a factory 'Sultan Gas Cylinder Company' located near Singer Chowrangi at Korangi. SHO Javed Brohi said the ground-plus two-storey factory collapsed when four oxygen cylinders exploded one after another.
Following the incident, law enforcement agencies, fire tenders and rescuers from different welfare organisations rushed to the spot and started rescue work. They shifted the injured persons to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for treatment. A young worker, who was yet to be identified lost his life while five other namely Azhar, 18, Junaid, 18, Waqas, 20, Sher Zada, Naila, 28 and Farzana, 26 sustained injures in the incident.
SHO Brohi further said that most of the workers received injures, due to stampede and added that although the factory was regularised, the police started search for the factory owner, who disappeared after the incident. According to doctors, one of the injured, Sher Zada, was in critical condition.
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