Transformer blast death toll climbs to 10 Week has passed, but no report of incident submitted to authorities PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE HYDERABAD: The death toll from the explosion at a pole-mounted transformer in Hyderabad on July 22 climbed to 10 lives with the death of 28-year-old Faraz Ansari in the wee hours of Wednesday. He was under treatment at a private hospital in Karachi. In the immediate aftermath of the blast, 22 people were left injured and 18 of them suffered critical burns. A few hours before Ansari breathed his last, an assistant lineman of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company, Muhammad Faisal Qureshi, who was also admitted to the same hospital, also succumbed to his wounds. The bodies of both the victims of alleged HESCO negligence were brought for burial to Hyderabad.