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3 children killed as Peshawar house roof collapsesPakistan
A gas cylinder blast in Peshawar’s Pahari Pura area brought a house roof down on Thursday morning, killing three children and leaving rescue teams to search the rubble.
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Three children have died after the roof of a house collapsed in Peshawar following an explosion involving a gas cylinder, rescue sources have said.
The incident took place on Thursday morning at a house in the Pahari Pura area of the city. According to rescue sources, the blast caused the roof to come down, trapping people beneath the debris.
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Rescue teams reached the scene and recovered the bodies of the three children from the rubble. The children have not been named in the reports published so far, and their ages have not been given.
People injured in the incident were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Officials have not yet released details about the number of injured people or the condition of those taken to hospital.
After the required medico-legal formalities were completed, the bodies of the deceased children were handed over to their families. That step, which involves official documentation of the deaths, is a routine part of the process before families can proceed with funerals.
Gas cylinder explosions in homes are a recurring cause of serious accidents in Pakistan, where cylinders are widely used for cooking and heating. A leak, a faulty valve, or damage to a cylinder can allow gas to build up indoors, and a spark can then trigger a blast powerful enough to damage a building.
Rescue officials regularly urge households to check cylinders and connections, to keep cylinders away from open flames, and to ventilate rooms if they smell gas. In the Peshawar case, the reports published so far do not say what caused the cylinder to explode, and that question will be part of any follow-up inquiry.
The collapse of a roof after a blast leaves rescue workers with a difficult task. They must search through broken concrete and household debris carefully, because survivors may be trapped in pockets beneath the rubble, while further collapse remains a risk.
In this incident, the search ended with the recovery of the three children who had died. The families now face the task of arranging funerals, while neighbours and relatives in Pahari Pura come to terms with a loss that struck in the morning, inside a family home.
No official statement has yet been published giving the full circumstances of the explosion, and the reports so far rely on rescue sources at the scene. Further details, including the identities of the children and the condition of the injured, may emerge once hospital and rescue officials release a fuller account.
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