(CNN)At least 70 people have died after a gas canister exploded in a train in Pakistan, authorities said.
The train was passing through the Punjab city of Rahim Yar Khan on Thursday morning when the cylinder exploded, causing a fire which spread through the train, according to local police officer Amir Taimoor.
Seventy people are dead and another 30 are injured, said Nadeem Zia, the medical supervisor of District Headquarters Hospital in Liaquatpur, a city in Rahim Yar Khan district.
Earlier, Taimoor said that around a dozen people were critically injured. Army troops, paramedics, and an army aviation helicopter are currently on site.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Arif Alvi have both shared their condolences for the victims' families on social media.
Khan said that he had ordered the launch of an immediate inquiry to be "completed on an urgent basis."
President Alvi "expressed profound grief on the loss of precious lives in the tragic blast caused by gas cylinder," in a statement released on his official Twitter account.
Although gas cylinders are banned on trains, passengers were using gas-powered cookers to prepare breakfast inside the train carriage when the explosion occurred, Taimoor added.
He added that many of the people on board the train were heading to a protest in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) from Rahim Yar Khan.
This happened on a day with 53 numerology..10+31+2+0+1+9=53
Pakistan=53,91
This happened on a day with 41 numerology..10+31=41
41/13th prime number...91/13th triangular number'
Train=37...Pakistan=37
This happened in Punjab=64
it happened on 10/31 or 31/10..311..311/64th prime number
70 dead 30 injured..73..train=73 sacrifice=73
Rahim Yar Khan=64..127/31st prime..it happened on the 31st
fire=70..70 dead
This happened 26 days after the PM's b-day.
Train=26..also 3 weeks 5 days..35
Punjab=35