KARACHI: Four men were killed and six others including two women wounded in an explosion at a fuel station in North Nazimabad on Friday evening, police and rescue services said.

DIG-West Nasir Aftab told Dawn that the blast occurred at a petrol pump /CNG station near Abdullah College.

Sharing initial reports, he said that the explosion took place in the electric room of the fuel station.

He confirmed the death of four people and wounds to six others.

Ruling out the possibility of any sabotage, he said it appeared to be an accident.

The bomb disposal squad was called in to ascertain the exact nature of the blast and its probable causes.

An Edhi Foundation spokesperson, whose ambulances had shifted the dead and injured to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, said one of the dead was identified as Sultan Imran, 50, while the identity of remaining three could not be made till late in the night.

Nazimabad SHO Ayazudin said that apparently it was a cylinder blast at Byco Pump in North Nazimabad’s Block-A.

He said that two women — Alia Humayun and Humera Waqar — were among the six persons who suffered injuries as a result of the explosion.

The remaining injured are Abdul Waheed, 30, Sohail Ishaq, 35, Abid Mohammed and Waqar Siddiq, 24.

The police were investigating the incident, said the area SHO.

Heavy contingent of police and paramilitary Rangers reached the scene and cordoned off the area.

Published in Dawn, October 30th, 2021