KARACHI, Sept 17: A man was killed and two others were injured when a gas cylinder exploded in a SITE factory on Saturday. Police said gas cylinders were being loaded onto a truck on the premises of a private gas-filling factory near the SITE police station when one of them exploded. The loader, Noor Syed, 32, died on the spot as his body blew up into pieces. Truck driver Rashid Iqbal and labourer Mohammad Abdul Wali received injuries. They were shifted to a hospital. The body was also sent for autopsy.
The victim hailed from Mardan and his body would be dispatched to his native town, the police added.
ROBBERIES: Residents of KDA Officers Society in Gulshan-i-Iqbal expressed their concern over the growing incidents of robberies in the locality.
A resident, Imran Aijaz, said that some robbers made their way into his house and deprived them of Rs15,000 and jewellery sets besides other valuables. The bandits also intruded the other portions in the house where separate families lived. The robbers later raided the neighbour’s house and robbed them of their jewellery and cash.
Although, a security agency guards were hired to keep an eye on criminals, they failed to stop the robbers and police had done nothing. Earlier on August 20, the armed robbers stormed into three bungalows in the locality and deprived the families of their cash and jewellery.
FIRs were registered with police and they were told that the robbers had cut the barbed wires and came from the side of a shantytown, Shanti Nagar. However, the police appeared reluctant to investigate the robberies, recover the looted property and arrest the robbers, he said.
