Two children died and three other people were injured when a gas leakage explosion rocked a house in Taxila on Thursday morning, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

The injured included another child, their mother and an elder of the family.

The blast took place when a member of the family tried to start a fire in the morning.
Rescue fire tenders and emergency ambulances took part in the relief operation and shifted the injured to a hospital for treatment.

The dead children were identified as four-year-old Saudais and five-year-old Awais.
Earlier, four children of a family were killed in an explosion triggered by gas leakage in Quetta’s Kharotabad area on Wednesday. Two women also sustained injuries in the incident took place in Badezai Town of Kharotabad. 

In another gas leakage explosion in Bolan Town of Quetta’s Sariab area on Tuesday night, Sub-Inspector Shabbir Hussain Gujjar of Police Station Shalkot died in gas leakage explosion.   

In a similar kind of incident on Tuesday, four people suffocated to death in Jan Mohammad Road area of Quetta. 

The incident occurred due to gas leakage which filled the room in which the four were sleeping causing their death. The dead bodies were shifted to the Civil Hospital.

 

Reporter Irshad Qureshi