ISLAMABAD, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from the cylinder explosion that took place in Pakistan's southern Sukkur district on Saturday rose to eight after five injured died on Monday, hospital officials said.
A spokesperson of the Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences hospital of Sukkur in southern Sindh province said that five critically injured people died during the treatment at the intensive care unit of the hospital.
According to the official, a total of eight people sustained injuries, including a child, in the cylinder blast at a shop of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Sukkur.
The injured were shifted to the hospital, where three of the wounded died during the treatment on Saturday, while others succumbed to their injuries on Monday.
Police told local media that the blast took place when the shop owner was transferring gas from a commercial cylinder to a domestic cylinder for a customer. ■