On the early hours of Sunday, a gas cylinder exploded inside a private bakery factory on the first floor of a building in Lahore’s Gulberg area, the capital of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, police said. One worker was killed and eight others were injured as the blast threw the building’s interior into chaos.
A Rescue 1122 official told Xinhua that rescue personnel rushed to the scene and shifted the injured to a nearby hospital for medical treatment. More than 40 people were present on the floor at the time of the explosion, but all were safely evacuated following the incident, he added.
Rescue personnel rushed to the scene and shifted the injured to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.
The injured were transported to a nearby medical facility where they received initial treatment. Hospital staff reported that the victims suffered from burns, shock and internal injuries as a result of the cylinder blast.
Police are conducting an investigation into the incident to determine the cause of the cylinder’s detonation. The investigation is ongoing, and authorities have not yet released additional details regarding the possible negligence or technical malfunction that led to the explosion.
The bakery factory’s owners and employees are awaiting further updates from the police investigation. The factory, which had been operating in the Gulberg area for several years, temporarily shut down its production facilities following the blast.