KARACHl: A woman was killed and a man was injured in a gas pipeline blast at KMC godown beneath Nipa flyover in Gulshan-iIqbal on Friday, according to police.

Aziz Bhatti police SHO Amir Azam said that the blast had left the two persons injured and they were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where the woman died during treatment.

The man was identified as Shah Rukh, 20, but the women, who was in her early 20s, could not be identified, he said.

The police believed that the victims were sitting on a garbage dump. The blast happened apparently when they lighted a matchstick close to a leaking gas pipeline, passing under the dump.

The victims lived near the blast site, the SHO said.

Man killed over trivial issue A 25-year-old man was stabbed to death in a brawl with another man over a trivial issue in Saifal Goth off Superhighway on Friday morning.

SITE Superhighway Industrial Area police SHO Aijaz Masan identified the victim as Rehman Ali.

The victim`s brother told the media that his brother was in hairdresser`s shop, where a scuffle occurred between him and another person over the use of a comb. He said the suspects attacked his brother with a scissors and killed him.

The deceased originally hailed from Mehar taluka of Dadu district. The SHO said three suspects had been detained.