Islamabad sources reported that at least 62 people were killed and several others injured when a cooking gas cylinder exploded in Southern Punjab Province in Pakistan. Meanwhile the incident took place on thursday morning, when few passengers started cooking breakfast with a gas stove connected to a cylinder. Furthermore due to leakage the cylinder blasted when a fire was lit, the fire engulfed three carriages of the train.
Perhaps the incident took place near Rahim Yar town in Punjab and apparently Pakistan’s minister for Railways Sheik Rashid ahmed told foreign news agencies that two of cooking stoves blew up after some passengers started cooking. Furthermore the cooking oil which they used has added fuel to the flames which led to blowing of the cylinder.
Moreover the minister said that most of the deaths took place as the passengers tried to jump from the running train. Perhaps he further added that cooking in trains during the long journeys is a common phenomenon in pakistan trains and the foreign news agencies have attributed the accident to poor maintenance of trains and coaches, which were built during British-era. Moreover it has to be mentioned that about 130 people were killed in Sindh Province when two trains collided with each other way back in 2005.
