Gas leak blast kills two, injures five in Quetta

Quetta: Two people among a woman were killed, while five others injured in a gas leak blast in Quetta.

According to the details garnered, the blast occurred in Al Khair Housing Society on the Airport Road. At least two people were killed while four children were critically injured. The police and security forces arrived at the site and shifted the injured and dead bodies to the hospital.

According to the police, the gas had accumulated in one of the houses due to leakage from a geyser. A man in the house lit a match and it caused the blast.

The man was injured in the blast, but two people in the adjacent house were killed when explosion caused walls to collapse. Five other members of the family, mostly children, were injured.

The blast also damaged other houses in the vicinity.