At least eight persons were injured in a boiler blast on Saturday at a pipe manufacturing factory at Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Estate.
According to a Rescue 1122 spokesman, the blast occurred when the owner and the workers of the factory started work. Several people received severe burn injuries as a result of the explosion.
Rescue officials and bomb disposal squad reached the scene and shifted the injured workers to Jinnah Hospital for treatment.
The injured were identified as Tariq, Muhammad Arshad, Sohail Ahmad, Mahmood and Muhammad Shafiq.
