Eight killed as gas pipeline explodes in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

PESHAWAR: At slightest 8 radical -- including a pistillate and a young miss -- died successful a state pipeline detonation astatine an concern property successful Pakistan's northwestern state Khyber Pakhtunkhwa connected Thursday, a Rescue 1122 authoritative said.The incidental occurred successful Hattar Industrial Estate country of Haripur district.According to Rescue 1122 sources, the detonation happened adjacent a grinding mill on the Grand Trunk Road, wherever a almighty blast successful the state pipeline triggered a monolithic fire.It besides acceptable a adjacent location ablaze, intensifying the harm and complicating rescue efforts.The territory constabulary serviceman of Haripur said astatine slightest 4 women and six children person been saved truthful far, portion the occurrence continued to dispersed rapidly.Several women and children sustained terrible pain injuries, and exigency teams are continuing rescue operations arsenic they enactment to bring the blaze nether control.Haripur Deputy Commissioner Waseem Ahmed said the deaths appeared to person been caused chiefly by suffocation.