GHALANAI:Twominors, who got critical burns in a gas cylinder explosion in Ambar tehsil of Lower Mohmand tribal district the other day, succumbed to their injuries in Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, on Sunday.

Lower Mohmand assistant commissioner Qaiser Khan said a gas cylinder exploded in the house of one Saznoo in Saleh Kor area of Ambar tehsil on Saturday night, injuring Saznoo, his son Rafiullah and daughters, Madeeha and Sara.

The injured were rushed to the DHQ hospital Khar from where they were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar.

However, five-year-old Rafiullah and three-yearold Madeeha breathed their last at the hospital.