Three injured of Lahore gas cylinder explosion expired during treatment in the hospital on Wednesday.
At least twenty-six people were injured, four of them critically, in twin LPG cylinder blasts in the kitchen of a multinational food chain restaurant at Lahore’s Mustafa Town, Wahdat Road.
The injured were shifted to burn unit of Jinnah Hospital where three people identified as Zaman, Muzaffar Abbas and Saleem succumbed to their wounds while 12 others were still under treatment. Condition of some wounded people was stated to be serious and it was feared that death toll could rise further.
A Rescue 1122 spokesman said the explosion took place in the kitchen of an upcoming branch of a fast food chain around 4 pm and a fire erupted after the twin blasts.
The blaze, also spread to a nearby plastic items shop, damaging all merchandise there.
Rescue fire-fighters and Edhi ambulances reached McDonald’s branch and put in efforts to extinguish the blaze which also engulfed the adjacent China Sale Point.
