JHELUM: Six people were killed and 10 others injured when a three-storey building collapsed after a gas cylinder explosion in Jhelum.
Samiullah Farooq, Deputy Commissioner of Jhelum, confirmed the death of six people and said almost 10 others were recovered from the rubble and shifted to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital.
Two of the injured have been transported to Rawalpindi, he added.
“There are reports that four to five people could be underneath the rubble,” the deputy commissioner said, adding that the rescue operation would continue till the last trapped person was reached and the whole site was cleared.
Jhelum police said that all available resources were being utilised to rescue the lives of the people trapped under the debris of the building.
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