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Karachi /Â AFP
The death toll from an explosion and fire at a Pakistan shipbreaking yard has risen to 16, officials said on Wednesday, as a search continued for more victims.
At least 59 others were wounded on Tuesday when a gas cylinder exploded and started a fire inside an oil tanker at the Gadani yard in the southwestern province of Balochistan, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Karachi. “The death toll is now 16,” Zulfiqar Hashmi, a local government official, said.
“We have found four more bodies in the sea. These bodies have minor burn injuries, so we are unsure whether they died inside the tanker and fell down in the sea or they jumped down to save themselves from the fire,” he said.