The death toll from cylinder explosion that took place in Pakistan’s southern Sukkur district on Saturday rose to eight after five injured died on Monday, hospital officials said.
A spokesperson of the Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences hospital of Sukkur in southern Sindh province said that five critically injured people died during the treatment at the intensive care unit of the hospital.
According to the official, eight people sustained injuries, including a child, in the cylinder blast at a shop of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Sukkur.
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Rescuers shifted the injured to the hospital, where three of them died during the treatment on Saturday.
“Others succumbed to their injuries on Monday,” hospital official said.
Police told local media that the blast took place when the shop owner was transferring gas from a commercial cylinder to a domestic cylinder for a customer. (Xinhua)
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