January 16, 2026 03:58 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Europe scrambles troops to Greenland as Trump’s takeover push triggers Arctic power showdown | Nobel drama: Venezuelan leader presents Peace Prize to Trump | Iran protests turn fatal for Canadian citizen, Foreign Minister confirms | Major blow to Mamata! SC stays FIRs, flags state meddling in central probe as ‘serious issue’ | Supreme Court snub shocks Vijay’s Jana Nayagan, release now in deep trouble | Trump tariff bomb on Iran trade: Tharoor flags existential crisis for Indian exporters | 'Mobocracy in court?': SC explodes over Calcutta HC chaos in ED vs Mamata showdown | Dalal Street on hold! Maharashtra civic polls pull the plug on market action | Big blow to TMC! Calcutta High Court dismisses case against ED in I-PAC raid row | 10-minute delivery dead! Govt crackdown forces Blinkit, Swiggy and Zomato to backtrack after gig workers revolt
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.