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HYDERABAD, Jan 30 (APP): A truck refilling CNG at a CNG station, located very close to Wadhu Wah Gate on Hyderabad Bypass road on Friday, caught fire killing one person in the incident.
An unknown person was burnt to death in the fire which engulfed the Star CNG station and a neighbouring house, the spokesman of Rescue 1122 Dilbar Halepoto informed.
The fire spread a scare among the residents of coterminous buildings and bungalows as the CNG station is surrounded by residential units while an unauthorized transport stands also functions at the same place.
The Rescue official said it took 3 fire tenders more than an hour to douse the blazes whose black smoke had covered the sky.
He added that the firefighters prevented fire from spreading to more houses as it was extinguished in the first residential unit where it had reached.
He told that a completely burnt dead body was later found from the CNG station during the cooling process. Halepoto told that the cause of fire could not be immediately ascertained but an inquiry was underway.The dead body was shifted to Liaquat University Hospital.
This was the third incident of fire at a CNG station in Hyderabad, and that too on a stretch of less than 2 kilometers on the same Bypass road, in around 2 months.The first incident had occurred on November 24 and the second, which claimed 2 lives of a man and his son, on December 9.The local authorities remained tightlipped over such incidents as a lack of regard for the safety rules appear missing.
As many as 27 people, including 20 children, were killed in Hyderabad on May 30, 2024, in an explosion and fire taking place at a shop refilling LPG in a densely populated area, Pareetabad.Likewise, 8 people died in a blast at an illegally operating fireworks factory in Hyderabad on November 15, 2025.