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DEATH TOLL IN SOUTHERN PAKISTAN SEWER GAS BLAST JUMPS TO 17

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People and paramilitary personnel clear the rubble after a blast in an
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THE BLAST DESTROYED THE HBL BANK BUILDING CONSTRUCTED OVER THE SEWER.



The death toll from a sewer gas blast in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi
jumped to 17 as some critically injured people died overnight and Sunday, police
said.

Initially, 12 people were reported dead and 11 others injured in Saturday's gas
explosion in a sewage system in the commercial hub of Pakistan Saturday.

Senior police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz Shaikh said the loss of lives and property
could be blamed on human errors of construction over the sewer. He said the
number of injured also increased to 16.

The blast destroyed the HBL bank building constructed over the sewer. The
building was one of several ordered to vacate after violating building laws,
according to Mukhtar Abro, a local administrator, who said the structures were
to be demolished in coming weeks.



Many sewage channels in the city have been covered, mostly illegally, by
constructing concrete structures over them.



Also Sunday, a roadside bomb killed two and wounded three others in a passing
vehicle in the country's northwest. Police officer Abdus Samad said the vehicle
was destroyed in the blast, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A search operation
has started to trace the culprits who planted the bomb. No one claimed
responsibility for the blast near the border of Afghanistan.

In the same province Sunday, two people were killed and six other wounded when a
group of gunmen opened fire in the Karak district. Police official Akbar Khan
said the violence took place at a polling station during a local government
election. Other minor clashes were reported linked to the vote but without any
casualties.


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