In gas-rich Kazakhstan, many rely on lethal cylinders
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In gas-rich Kazakhstan, many rely on lethal cylinders
Giyassova suffered burns to 65 percent of her body when a gas cylinder blast ripped through a building in the northern Kazakhstan town of Shchuchinsk this year, killing 12 people. The tragedy has reignited a debate on the domestic energy difficulties that plague the former Soviet republic. Despite sitting on vast natural gas reserves, Kazakhstan's distribution network is fragmented, forcing a third of its 20 million people to rely on gas cylinde…
"I woke up in the hospital. I was like a mummy, completely bandaged from head to toe. It's indescribable, the pains were unbearable," told the 32-year-old AFP, who was burned at 65%.This evening in February,...
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