CNG blast: Two hurt in Rawalpindi

ISLAMABAD: Two people were injured in an explosion caused by a Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) blast in Morgah, Rawalpindi on Saturday, said a rescue official. Zafar Ali, 65, and Tariq Mahmood, 55, residents of Morgah, were injured during a blast in a Toyota Hiace parked in a house. The rescue official said Zafar filled CNG in his vehicle from Haripur, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and parked the vehicle at his home. However, the fuel and CNG got mixed up somehow and this resulted in a blast. The injured were shifted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Science and Benazir Bhutto Hospital where the condition of the injured is said to be critical.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 25^th, 2015.