Five sisters burn as UPS battery explodes in Karachi

Karachi: Five sisters were burnt after a UPS battery exploded in a house in the Kemari, area of Karachi.

According to the police, after a fire broke out in a UPS in a house in Kemari Kachchipara, the battery exploded, which engulfed the entire house in flames. Seeing the intensity of the fire, the family assumed that a cylinder had exploded.

After the fire brigade personnel extinguished the fire, the police inspected the affected house and found no evidence of a cylinder explosion in the house.

According to the police, the fire in the house started due to a UPS battery explosion, which injured five sisters, aged between three and 11 years. The injured girls are being provided medical assistance in the burns ward of the Civil Hospital, where their condition is out of danger.

Police said the injured girls include three-year-old Isha, five-year-old Alisha, seven-year-old Minahil, nine-year-old Tabeer, and 11-year-old Aiza.