One person reportedly dead while at least five others sustain injuries in an explosion inside a boiler room with in an ice depot in New Karachi Industrial Area on Tuesday.

According to rescue officials, One woman is among those injured, as the ceiling of the depot collapsed after the blast.

Bystanders rushed to the site to help the affected as rescue teams arrived.

Senior Superintendent of Police in East district alongside his personnel has taken over the blast site as paramedic teams carry out their rescue exercise on the scene.

Initial reports suggest that the Rangers officials who reached the site first, said the explosion was due to the factory boiler blowing.