Cylinder blast kills two in Chitral

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CHITRAL: Two members of a family died and four others sustained injuries when a gas cylinder exploded in the kitchen of a house in Jughoor village here on Friday morning.

Those who died included a woman, 60, and a boy, 6, while four injured persons were shifted to a Peshawar hospital where two of them were stated to be in precarious condition.

The intensity of the explosion was so high that the windowpanes of the houses in the vicinity were also smashed.

Published in Dawn, August 8th, 2020

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