Twelve people were injured on Saturday after a gas cylinder exploded at a roadside cafe near Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) in Peshawar on Saturday, a rescue official said.
Rescue 1122 spokesman Bilal Ahmad Fazi said Don Dot Com Immediately after receiving information about this rescue officer blast. He reached the scene and started rescue operations.
The officials shifted the injured to the hospital themselves, adding that Rescue 1122 firefighters were quickly controlled by firefighters.
The spokesman cited hospital sources, saying that the injured were being treated at THH.
Due to leakage and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders, fire incidents are found in the country as usual.
Last month, after the LPG tanker blast in Multan, Punjab, which killed at least 19 and injured more than a dozen others. An inquiry was ordered.
Earlier this week, one person was killed and seven others were injured in separate gas blasts in Quetta and Pishin districts of Balochistan.
Last month, three people, including two minor girls, were injured in a gas cylinder blast inside a shop in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Prior to the incident, a man was burned in Gotki in Sindh district and similar gas blasts were injured in burning nine people in Rawalpindi.
In May last year, a major explosion at the LPG cylinder shop in Hyderabad claimed the lives of at least 27 people, including 19 children, and more than a dozen others were injured. Similar incidents took place in Bhatshah and Larkana within two weeks, which resulted in the action against LPG filling shops in Sindh.
