{"id":102317,"date":"2026-02-26T19:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=102317"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:54:52","slug":"seven-lives-lost-in-chaman-gas-cylinder-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/seven-lives-lost-in-chaman-gas-cylinder-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven lives lost in Chaman gas cylinder explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAMAN: At least seven people were martyred, and more than twenty others were injured in a gas <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/four-injured-in-gas-cylinder-explosion-in-karachi\/\">cylinder explosion<\/a> in the border city of Chaman.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in the Shadzai area of the city when a gas cylinder exploded in a house. According to police officials, women and children were also among those killed in the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion took place when children and elderly people of the village had gathered at the house. The massive explosion resulted in extensive damage to the house, destroying a major part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams and people reached the spot shortly after the explosion and shifted the injured to nearby hospitals for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Several injured people are said to be in critical condition. Police have started an investigation to find out the cause of the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, initial reports suggest that the explosion was triggered by a gas cylinder. A large number of children and women had gathered to take lassi when a 20kg gas cylinder kept in the kitchen of the house exploded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAMAN: At least seven people were martyred, and more than twenty others were injured in a gas cylinder explosion in the border city of Chaman. The incident took place in the Shadzai area of the city when a gas cylinder exploded in a house. According to police officials, women and children were also among those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":102318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102319,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102317\/revisions\/102319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}