Faisalabad: At least five passengers including three children were burnt to death as a van caught fire after gas cylinder blast here Faisalabad city of Pakistan.
Rescue sources said the incident took place in Kharyan wala when a 17-seat passenger van was moving toward Faisalabad. The sources said that injured and bodies have been shifted the nearby hospital. They added that some of the injured were said to be critical in hospital.
“Seven injured have been shifted in Allied hospital while two were rushed to Civil Hospital,” the sources said. The sources said that the Allied hospital did not have a separate Burn ward.
Some of the sources claimed that the van caught fire due to the leakage of gas.
The van owners’ in Punjab use more than three or five locally made gas cylinders in vehicle due gas load-shedding in the province.
