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Deaths in Pakistan 'explosion'

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At least 18 people have been killed and 40 others injured in a blast in the southern Pakistani city of Hyderabad.

Police said Monday's explosion was accidental.

Mohammad Ali Baloch, a police official, said a lorry exploded at a depot in Hyderabad city after gas pressure built up in a storage tank.

Nawaz Abbasi, a medical superintendent at the Liaqat University Hospital, said his hospital had received 14 bodies, and at least 30 people wounded.

Hyderabad is located 160km north of the southern financial capital, Karachi.

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