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At least 12 people were killed and an equal number injured in Karachi on
December 18 when a massive blast, apparently triggered by a gas explosion in a
sewage system, ripped through the premises of a private bank situated on it,
according to media reports.

Most of the casualties are reportedly customers and staff present inside the
bank which was built on top of a covered sewage channel in Karachi's Shershah
area and collapsed following the explosion, the Express Tribune newspaper
reported.

Officials said that the cause of the explosion is being investigated as it
cannot be ascertained whether it was a gas pipeline or a build-up of methane
that took place inside the sewage system which led to the explosion.

"It might be a sewer gas blast as the bank was constructed on a nullah. It is
too early to say whether it was a gas line or a sewer explosion. We are
investigating," a senior police official was quoted as saying in the report.



According to a report in Geo TV, eyewitnesses claim that there are many people
who are buried underneath the debris of the building.



Two excavators have been called to the site to remove the debris and rescue any
persons trapped there.

A bomb disposal unit (BDU) has also arrived at the location which has been
cordoned off, the Geo TV report said.


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