KARACHI, Dec 9: Two employees of Shell’s Select Shop, who were wounded in the Dec 3 explosion at a petrol station on Khayaban-i-Bahria, died on Tuesday, says a press release issued by the Pakistan Defence Officers’ Housing Authority.

The press release adds that the Shell employees, Safer and Nadeem, were admitted to Patel Hospital with “fatal burns injuries”.

“Safer died because of acute burn injuries (60 per cent) and Nadeem with 40 per cent burn injuries breathed his last in the early hours of Tuesday,” it says.

The explosion which occurred at the petrol station on Khayaban-i-Bahria in DHA was not a terrorist act. It was a gas explosion, adds PPI.

This was stated in a report presented by Dr G.A. Chamberlane, representative of Shell from London. The report was presented at a session held at the Central Police Office.

The session was presided over by the Sindh inspector-general of police, Syed Kamal Shah. Those who attended the session included senior officers of Shell, Sui Southern Gas Company, and the DHA administrator, Brig Maqsood Hussain.

The IG on the occasion directed the DIG of Karachi (operation) to hold a meeting with senior officials of all the petroleum companies and ask them to take special precautionary measures at CNG filling stations. He also directed that hidden cameras be installed at all petrol pumps.