Gas explosion in sewer kills 10 in southern Pakistan city
The Hindu
Many sewage channels have been covered, mostly illegally, by constructing concrete structures over them.
A powerful gas explosion in a sewage system in a southern Pakistan city killed at least 10 people and injured 13 others on Saturday, police and a health official said.
Police spokesman Sohail Jokhio said the blast was apparently caused when something ignited gas that had accumulated in the sewer beneath a bank building in the Shershah neighbourhood of the port city of Karachi.
Jokhio said it was not yet clear what ignited the gas but a team of explosives experts had been summoned to investigate.
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