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Gas cylinder blast: toll mounts to seven

Published February 16, 2017 Updated February 16, 2017 12:00am

Death toll into Bahawalnagar gas cylinder blast has climbed to seven as another teenager girl expired during treatment on Wednesday. Roof of a house came down and walls of four adjacent houses collapsed when a powerful blast caused by gas leakage ripped through a house located at Circular Road in Bahawalnagar on Tuesday.
Six people died in the blast and 11 belonging to neighbouring house were injured who were shifted to hospital where a 15-year-old gild succumbed to her wounds raising death toll to seven. Condition of some more wounded people was stated to be serious.