UMERKOT: Two workers of a gas cylinder filling outlet and a 12-year-old boy who had received serious burns in a cylinder blast in Umerkot died in a Hyderabad hospital on Thursday.

The cylinder exploded when it was being filled by the workers, Manik Oad, 50, and Ramoo Lohar, 40, in the outlet about a week ago. The workers and the 12-year-old boy, Jitendar, the only son of a local journalist who happened to be there, had received severe burn injuries and rushed to the Hyderabad Civil Hospital.

Published in Dawn, August 22nd, 2014

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