Pakistan: Fire breaks out at oil refinery in Karachi's Korangi, 6 hurt
Karachi: At least six people received burn injuries as a fire broke out in an underground line of an oil refinery in Korangi Industrial Area in Pakistan's Karachi city, media reports said on Tuesday.
The fire has been brought under control.
Four of the injured with severe burns were shifted to Civil hospital's burns ward, while the two others were taken to Jinnah hospital, rescue officials told Geo News.
Workers of the oil refinery located in Mehran Town Sector 15 in Korangi were repairing an underground line leakage. While they were doing the repairs, a spark triggered a fire that broke out with a blast during excavation work, the news channel reported.
Three fire tenders, two of them from the KMC, joined the fire extinguishing process.
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