{"id":17932,"date":"2022-06-03T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=17932"},"modified":"2022-06-03T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T07:18:27","slug":"explosion-in-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/03\/explosion-in-karachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel holders are being held after a \u2018sewerage line&#8217; explosion in Karachi."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police have arrested the owners of a hotel in Karachi&#8217;s Bilal Colony after nine people were injured in an explosion in a sewerage line upon which the eatery was built, according to Korangi Senior Superintendent of Police Faisal Bashir Memon on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a police statement issued at the time, the explosion caused &#8220;the tea hotel constructed on the sewerage line to collapse,&#8221; causing &#8220;milk and hot water to land [sic] on passers-by.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three children were among those injured, according to the statement. However, the statement did not specify whether the injured were bystanders or visitors and employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the statement, the injured were taken to Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SSP Memon confirmed these details, saying that people were having tea on charpoys and chairs and children were playing when the explosion occurred due to &#8220;gas accumulation&#8221; in the sewerage line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He stated that none of the injured had life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the SSP, the hotel was built four to five years ago, and police have filed a case against and arrested the two hotel owners for &#8220;negligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last major incident of this type in Karachi occurred on December 18, 2021, when an explosion occurred in a nullah (drain) beneath a private bank near Paracha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested the owners of a hotel in Karachi&#8217;s Bilal Colony after nine people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-17932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-karachi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hotel holders are being held after a \u2018sewerage line&#039; 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