At least five people including mother and two children were burnt to death while 10 others were scorched when a passenger van caught fire after gas cylinder explosion. Police said that due to leakage, gas cylinder of a passenger van exploded near Kandhkot area of district Kashmore. The van caught fire after the blast resultantly five people including a woman and her two children were burnt to death while 10 others were scorched.
The police and rescue teams rushed the scene of the incident and shifted the bodies and injured to hospital where condition of some more scorched people was stated to be serious. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali expressing deep grief over the loss of five precious lives in the incident has directed the authorities for providing best medical facilities to the scorched people.