{"id":12390,"date":"2026-04-16T21:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=12390"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:21:40","slug":"130317757-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=12390","title":{"rendered":"Eight killed as gas pipeline explodes in Pakistan&#8217;s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130317766,imgsize-29090,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/130317766.jpg\" alt=\"Eight killed as gas pipeline explodes in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>PESHAWAR: At least eight people &#8212; including a woman and a young girl &#8212; died in a gas pipeline explosion at an industrial estate in Pakistan&#8217;s northwestern province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday, a Rescue 1122 official said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The incident occurred in Hattar Industrial Estate area of Haripur district.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>According to Rescue 1122 sources, the explosion happened near a grinding mill along the Grand Trunk Road, where a powerful blast in the gas pipeline triggered a massive fire.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>It also set a nearby house ablaze, intensifying the damage and complicating rescue efforts.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The district police officer of Haripur said at least four women and six children have been saved so far, while the fire continued to spread rapidly.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Several women and children sustained severe burn injuries, and emergency teams are continuing rescue operations as they work to bring the blaze under control.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Haripur Deputy Commissioner Waseem Ahmed said the deaths appeared to have been caused mainly by suffocation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/pakistan\/eight-killed-as-gas-pipeline-explodes-in-pakistans-khyber-pakhtunkhwa\/articleshow\/130317757.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: At least eight people &#8212; including a woman and a young girl &#8212; died&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30021,30017,30019,30020,30018],"class_list":["post-12390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-casualties-gas-explosion","tag-gas-pipeline-explosion-pakistan","tag-haripur-district-incident","tag-industrial-estate-explosion","tag-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}