Death toll reaches 4 in Uri gas cylinder blast

The death toll has mounted to 4 in the last week’s LPG cylinder blast in Uri that killed 2 people on Sunday.The two sisters who breathed their last today early morning at SKIMS Soura has mounted the death toll to 4. The two sisters who succumbed today were identified as Sabeena Bano (16) and Shaishta Bano (14) daughters of Mohammad Shafi Chalkoo.

A police officer from Uri confirmed to local news agency that the duo succumbed early morning at SKIMS Soura.Seven members of the family, including their mother were injured in a gas cylinder blast at their home in Laghama village of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on May 27.On Sunday, their mother and another sister had passed away at SKIMS.