{"id":16117,"date":"2026-02-19T04:53:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=16117"},"modified":"2026-02-19T04:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:53:53","slug":"at-least-6-killed-in-karachi-soldier-bazaar-building-collapse-following-gas-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=16117","title":{"rendered":"At least 6 killed in Karachi Soldier Bazaar building collapse following gas explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: At least six people were killed and 11 were injured after a suspected gas explosion caused part of a residential building to collapse in the Soldier Bazaar area of Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at a house in the Gul Rana Colony area of Soldier Bazaar. A District East police spokesperson said it was possibly caused by a gas leak.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue 1122 said that search and rescue operations are ongoing, with an urban search and rescue team and a disaster response vehicle present at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesperson added that a large contingent of officers, along with rescue teams, reached the scene soon after the incident was reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice cordoned off the area and tightened security, while rescue agencies initiated a search and rescue operation,\u201d said the police spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: At least six people were killed and 11 were injured after a suspected gas explosion caused part of a residential building to collapse in the Soldier Bazaar area of Karachi. The incident occurred at a house in the Gul Rana Colony area of Soldier Bazaar. A District East police spokesperson said it was possibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16119,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16117\/revisions\/16119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}