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26 June 2017, 09:14

Gasoline tanker fire kills 140 in Pakistan

BAHAWALPUR, 26 June (BelTA - APP) - At least 140 people were killed as a tanker carrying thousands liters of Gasoline caught fire after it overturned in eastern 'Ahmed Pur Sharqia' town of Pakistan on Sunday.

Around 150 people, including women and children, were also critically injured in the fire incdient.

The huge fire erupted in an oil tanker which had slipped from the road and overturned in Ahmedpur Sharqia Tehsil of Bahawalpur District.

Thousands liters of oil started leaking from the tanker and people from nearby villages rushed to collect it. Suddenly, fire broke out in the oil tanker and engulfed all people, engaged in collecting oil.

Haroon-ur-Rasheed who is an ex-senior police official and an expert to deal with emergency and rescue operations in Bahawalpur, told APP that some people who had gathered at the scene to collect oil, started smoking cigarette and used their mobile phones which might have ignited the fire.

District Emergency Officer, Rescue 1122, Dr. Asif Raheem Channar told media persons that the ambulances of 1122 and other vehicles had shifted 123 bodies to the hospitals which were completely burnt down and beyond the identification.

The hospital sources said that more injured have succumbed to their wound at the hospitals and death toll has risen to 140.

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