August 19, 2026 05:19 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Vijay govt calls for action to stop students, youth from joining CJP, Left protests | Kolkata hotel fire kills 9: Bengal Minister Agnimitra Paul targets ex-TMC govt, CESC over licences | Kolkata hotel fire: 9 Bangladeshi nationals, including women and a child, die in massive blaze | Tarun Tejpal faces life term? Goa govt moves Supreme Court after 2013 rape conviction | Supreme Court rejects ‘less painful’ death penalty plea, but leaves door open for future change | ‘Vulgarity and disgust’: DMK attacks Vijay over Trisha salute at I-Day event | ‘Take Gyanesh Kumar to the US’: Congress mocks Trump over praise for India’s voter ID system | Big relief for Imran Khan: Pakistan Supreme Court orders hospital transfer amid health fears | Trump praises India’s voter ID system, pushes SAVE America Act | Trump's shock threat to bomb Oman: US President warns ally over Iran deal and Hormuz crisis
Pakistan Gas Leakage
Image: Unsplash

Pakistan: Seven killed, 5 injured in fire, gas leakage accidents

| @indiablooms | Jan 05, 2022, at 09:11 pm

Islamabad/UNI/Xinhua: Seven people were killed and five others injured in two separate accidents in Pakistan in the last 24 hours, local media reported on Wednesday.

According to the reports, seven people of a family were killed after fire erupted in a village on the outskirts of Toba Tek Singh district of the country's eastern Punjab province.

The accident took place while the victims were sleeping, resulting in the death of all the family members in the house, rescue workers told local media.

The deceased included five girls, local media said.

Separately, five people were injured after a blast hit a house in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, local media said.

Reportedly, the explosion occurred due to gas leakage in the house, resulting in injuries of all the people from the same family including three kids.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.