DUSHANBE, December 29, 2011, Asia-Plus – Five members of one family, including three children, sustained various burn wounds Thursday morning as a result of a domestic gas blast in one of workers’ hostels in the southwest of Dushanbe, according to the Ministry of Interior (MoI).

The cause of the explosion is under investigation.  The source in a MoI says experts attribute the explosion to gas escape in the gas pipeline.