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Uri Gas cylinder blast: Six year old boy succumbs, toll rises to five
Uri, Jun 08 : A 6 year old boy who along with his mother and five other siblings were injured in a gas cylinder blast on May 27 last month succumbed to his injuries at SKIMS Soura here.
After battling for his life for four days boy succumbed to his injuries today morning, after her mother and three sisters succumbed to injuries last back at the Valley’s tertiarycare hospital SKIMS Soura.
A 6 year old boy who died today has bermen identified as Ubaide Ahmed son of Mohammad Shafi Chalkoo.
A police officer from Uri confirmed to GNS that another gas blast victim succumbed to injuries early morning at SKIMS Soura raising the toll to 5.
Earlier his mother Parveena Akther (35) and three sisters Saima Bano (18) Sabeena Bano (16) and Shaishta Bano (14) had succumbed to injuries last week.
They were injured in the gas cylinder blast at their residence at Laghama village of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on May 27. (GNS)