A number of people injured when a cylinder blast rocked a house in Karachi on Thursday morning, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

Four women and a child were among the seven people injured in the explosion happened at a flat in the Jamshed Road area of Karachi, police said. The injured have been shifted to a nearby hospital.

The injured are aged between three to 68 years. Some of the wounded were identified as Anees, Fatima, Kalsoom, Iqbal and Hanif.

Reporter Imtiaz Ali