29, including children, hospitalized in Karachi, Pakistan, after gas leak

At least 29 persons, including women and children, were sent to the hospital following an ammonia gas leak on Tuesday at a factory in Karachi. According to a report by the Dawn, the event happened in the evening when ammonia gas began to flow from a leaky pipe at a private seafood firm in Karachi’s West Wharf neighborhood.

The neighborhood was quickly overcome by the gas, and 29 women and children instantly became sick and lost consciousness after breathing it in. In Karachi, Dr. Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital received 14 women for treatment, while Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center received 15 more women and children.

After being brought to the plant, the engineers fixed the pipe and sealed the leak. Rumors of a cylinder explosion at the facility were refuted by police representatives from Karachi’s Docks district by stating that there was a gas leak instead.

No one has been detained or arrested by the police.

This year, there have been a number of gas leak events around Pakistan. Six individuals, including four children, died in a month’s time in Rawalpindi after at least 16 gas leak events were recorded.

16 people, including children, have perished as a result of gas leak events in the country’s Quetta province since the beginning of this year. Four children from a family living in a mud-walled home were killed in an explosion that was caused by a gas leak in the Killi Badezai neighborhood of Quetta.

Officials in Pakistan have acknowledged that there have been an increasing number of gas leak occurrences nationwide. The extensive gas load shedding and low pressure were blamed by the authorities for the gas leaks.

Last month in Korangi, a leak of ammonia gas was discovered at the Najma ice plant in Mehran Town. Numerous individuals were impacted by the gas leak, and two of those affected needed medical attention.

A hazardous gas leak within a coal mine in Pakistan’s Balochistan province resulted in six fatalities and five hospitalizations in March. The miners perished when deadly gas was released into the mine, according to the rescue personnel.