Factory fire kills 80 in Karachi, Pakistan

Factory fire kills 80 in Karachi, Pakistan
A fire raced through a garment factory in the Pakistani city of Karachi overnight, killing 80 people on Wednesday while another fire at a shoe factory in Lahore killed 25.

Pakistani rescuers and paramedics gather around dead bodies of workers of a shoe-making factory in the eastern city of Lahore on September 11, 2012. At least 20 workers were killed and five wounded when a shoe-making factory in the eastern city of Lahore caught alight on Tuesday, hospital officials said.

Photograph by: ARIF ALI, AFP/Getty Images


Pakistani rescuers carry the body of garment factory worker in a hospital after a fire erupted in the factory in Karachi on September 11, 2012, killing at least nine workers and injuring 20 others, police said. “Several workers are trapped inside. We have recovered nine dead bodies and 20 injured,” police official Sayed Mohammad Yousuf told AFP.

Photograph by: ASIF HASSAN, AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 



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