PESHAWAR (Web Desk) – A powerful gas cylinder explosion in a house on Pajjagi Road in Peshawar brought the home's roof crashing down.
Three of the five people critically injured in the incident, all of them children, died during treatment at Lady Reading Hospital. A woman and a girl remain under treatment at the hospital.
The cylinder exploded late last night after a gas leak in a house near Pajjagi Road, and the force of the blast caused the roof to collapse. A woman and four children were buried under the rubble and left critically injured.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi expressed deep grief and sorrow over the deaths of the three children. In a statement, he extended heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and said the loss of innocent young lives was deeply tragic and painful.