ISLAMABAD: The remains of another body was recovered from the site of a cylinder blast that killed a couple along with a passerby girl and injured five children in the suburban settlement of Burma Town on Monday. Shahzad Town Police said the victim was identified as Manzoor Ahmed, a relative of the dead couple who was visiting them. Police said the injured children identified him and confirmed that it was his body. Ahmed was missing since the incident. The body was handed over to the family who took it to their native town in Azad Jammu Kashmir for burial. The blast caused by a Liquified Petroleum Gas cylinder in a house killed a husband and wife along with a teenager passing by. The building collapsed, trapping the inmates underneath the debris. The couple’s five children were also injured.
Published In The Express Tribune, June 21st, 2012.
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