Two children among three killed in Karachi cylinder blast

KARACHI: At least three people, two children and a woman among them, were killed while six others got injured in a cylinder blast in Karachi on Wednesday.

Rescue sources relayed the explosion took place inside a shop in the port city’s Mosamyat area.

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On getting information, rescue teams and ambulances reached the scene of the blast and shifted the injured to a nearby hospital where three of them were pronounced dead upon arrival.

The explosion was so powerful that it destroyed three shops and a vehicle parked nearby.

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A bomb disposal squad has been called to determine the cause of the explosion.