HYDERABAD, April 28: Eight people received injuries in an explosion in a commercial kitchen in Juman Shah Ka Pir on Monday.

The injured included Haji Zaheer, owner of the kitchen, Umair, Sabir, Mujahid, Irfan, Aslam, Sufyan and Rahil.

The owner was getting fixed the leaked gas supply along with gas cylinders present there. The supply line was responsible for exploding the cylinder.

The injured mostly were staff and their relatives. People gathered in the area on hearing explosion and shifted the injured to hospital. Cause of explosion could not be known but it partially damaged the shop.

POWER OUTAGE: Several parts of the city remained without power supply for over five hours as a fault developed in Qasimabad grid station.

The areas connected to five separate feeders of the grid station remained without power. The areas hit were Cantonment, Saddar, Gari Khata, Qasimabad, Pathan goth and others.

People faced hardships in terms of loss of perishable foodstuff, milk and other commodities. As there was no power supply since 4pm the people were trying to get in touch with Hesco’s concerned sub division office but none were ready to rectify the fault.

Hesco spokesman when contacted over phone said all five feeders were not getting power supply from Qasimabad grid station. He said these feeders provide power supply to large areas. The repair work was in progress but the problem could not be fixed till filing of this report.

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