RAHIM YAR KHAN: Two persons were killed due to gas leakage at a sugar mills of Jetha Bhuta, Khanpur, some 56 kilometres from here, on Friday.

Hamza Sugar Mills General Manager Bashir Ahmed told Dawn that 14 employees were working at the treatment plant where methane gas is also produced as byproduct. The leakage started from its meter which controls the gas pressure.

Senior engineer Laeeq Shah tried to control the gas but he fell from the pipe. Ilyas, Shahid, Ashraf, Shahid Mahmood and Taimoor tried to rescue him but during this effort Laeeq and Ilyas died after consuming the gas and the remaining four employees were shifted to Khanpur THQ Hospital and Shaikh Zayed Medical College Hospital, RY Khan.

Bashir said the mill would compensate the families of Laeeq Shah, 35, resident of Okara, and Ilyas, 38, resident of Gujrat. He said the brothers and children of the deceased would be employed.

The four hospitalised employees were stable and would be discharged from the hospital, he said.

According to Rescue 1122 spokesperson Adnan Shabbir, the deceased fell into a pond of water treatment plant and were recovered after cutting the pipeline after three hours.

Published in Dawn, April 4th, 2015

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