Officials are yet to conclude whether the explosion was caused by a gas pipeline or a build-up of methane is to be blamed t🅰hat took place inside the sewage system which eventually led to the explosion.
Karachi on Sat❀urday witnessed death of at least 12 people and multiple got injure🌳d when a massive blast, apparently triggered by a gas explosion in a sewage system, ripped through the premises of a private bank situated on it, according to media reports.
According to the Express Tribune newspaper's report, most of th🔴e casualties are reportedly customers and staff present inside the bank which was built on top of a covered sewage channel in Karachi's Shershah area and collapsed following the explosion,
Officials said that the cause of the explosion is being investigated as it cannot be ascertaine♔d whether it was a gas pipeline or a build-up of methane that took place inside the sewage system which led to the explosion.
"It might be a sewer gas blast as the bank was constructed 𒁏on a nullah. It is too early to say whether it was a gas line or a sewer explosion. We are investigating," a senior police official was quoted as saying in the report.
According to a report in Geo TV, eyewitnesses claim that there are manyꦅ people who are buried underneath the debris of the✨ building.
Two excavators have been called to the site 🌠to remove the debris and rescue any persons trapped there.
A bomb disposal unit (BDU) has also arrived at the location which has been🐠 cordoned off, the🐻 Geo TV report said.