Gas heater blast kills baby

Published November 17, 2002

QUETTA, Nov 16: A three-old girl was killed and eight other of a family were injured in a gas explosion that occurred in a house here on Saturday.

The girl died on the spot and other eight members of the family, including women and children, were rushed to civil hospital.

According to sources due to leakage gas accumulated in a room of the house of Abdul Bari in Saeed Colony of Killi Muslimabad. When Bari’s wife, tried in the morning to turn the gas heater on a power full blast occurred causing the roof to collapse.

Three-year-old Jamila Bibi was killed others sleeping in the same room were injured.—Staff Correspondent

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