Quetta blast: Another victim dies in air-transportation

QUETTA: Another Hazara woman injured if Kerani road water
tanker blast succumbed to her burn injuries while being shifted from Quetta to Karachi raising the death toll to 91.

Sources in Health Department told state media that a woman died when about 37 critically injured victims were being shifted to Karachi-based private hospitals through C-130 plane on the directives of Governor Balochistan Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi.

" A seriously injured woman Afshan who was on ventilator succumbed to her burn wounds on the way to Karachi," the official sources said.

They added that the doctors had warned that shifting of seriously injured victims via C-130 plane to Karachi might be dangerous for the victims, however, on the insistence of some organizations' leaders, the government arranged C-130 plane for the shifting of wounded from CMH Quetta to Karachi.

The Hazara injured who were shifted to Karachi include 19 men, 10 women and eight children. (APP)