Faulty Gas cylinder kills at least 17 children

At least 17 children were burned to
death in eastern Pakistan on Saturday when a
faulty gas cylinder exploded on the bus taking them
to school,
Police officer Mohammed Rasheed said seven
children were also injured in the explosion on the
outskirts uof the city of Gujrat.
"This is a very sad incident. According to our
information, at least 17 children were burned to
death," he said. "The school bus caught fire after
the blast. We have transported all the victims to a
nearby hospital."
Gujrat is about 200km southeast of the capital,
Islamabad.
The accident comes after a pair of suspected
militant attacks killed nine people in two different
areas of northwest Pakistan on Friday.
In the deadlier of the two attacks, suspected
militants armed with heavy weapons attacked a
police convoy in Mattani, 20km south of the main
northwest city of Peshawar, killing six policemen
and wounding seven others, said senior police
officer Shafiullah Khan.
In the second attack on Friday, a suicide bomber
walked up to a vehicle owned by an Afghan
religious leader in Peshawar and set off his
explosives, killing three people, said police officer
Riaz Ali Shah.
The leader, Haji Hayatullah, was not harmed in
the attack because he was in a nearby mosque
attending Friday prayers. Hayatullah's driver and
guard were killed, said Shah.
A passerby was also killed and two others were
wounded, said Peshawar police chief Liaquat Ali
Khan.
There are more than 1 million refugees in
Pakistan from neighbouring Afghanistan.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks....... What is this world coming to?