PESHAWAR: Fourteen persons were injured in an explosion at a gas cylinder shop and a roof collapse here the other day.

Rescue 1122 spokesperson Bilal Ahmed Faizi said on Friday that the explosion occurred in a cylinder shop in Tedi Pump area of Yakatoot locality, injuring nine people. A car and a rickshaw were also damaged in the blast.

He said the injured were shifted to the burns centre in Hayatabad.

Separately, five people were injured when roof of a house collapsed in Wahid Ghari area. Mr Faizi said the roof collapse trapped six persons underneath the debris who were pulled out by the rescuers.

Published in Dawn, March 27th, 2021