One dead, six injured in cylinder blast in Neelum Valley
Caption: Vidoegrab shows the injured are being treated at a hospital.
A man breathed his last and six seriously wounded due to a fire caused by a cylinder blast at a tourist spot in Neelum Valley, reported 24News HD TV channel on Tuesday.
The explosion occurred in a three-storey residential house situated in Arang Kel, a tourist destination in Neelum Valley of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
Police said that residents of the area shifted the dead body and the injured to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital (THQ) on self-help basis.
The wounded were later identified as Ghulam Hussain, Tayyaba, Tassaduq, and Usman. Police said that after the blast, a fire also broke out in the residential building.
The fire brigade vehicles failed to reach the far-flung site due to unavailability of the road.
Reporter: Ashfaq Abbasi