Seven people including four family members killed after a passenger van’s CNG cylinder exploded in Lahore on Monday, officials said.
According to police the sad incident took place on Multan Road, near Manga Mandi, suburb area of Lahore.
The cylinder blew up due to a fire which erupted after the fuel tank of the passenger van had exploded, Motorway police officials said.
A couple, their two children and one unidentified man died on the spot while several others sustained burning injuries, police officials said.
The rescue teams rushed to the scene and shifted wounded to Jinnah hospital.
A Civil Society Front (CSF) report released in April revealed CNG cylinder explosions had caused as many as 2,000 fatalities last year. This figure, the report maintained, was four times the number of people killed in American drone strikes in 2011.