Karachi fire (symbolic)
A massive fire has broken out in a multi-storey building in Karachi, Pakistan. The incident took place on Rashid Minhas Road in Karachi on Saturday. Eleven people have died in a massive fire in a multi-storey shopping mall here. While several dozen people are said to be injured. All the injured have been admitted to a nearby hospital. The death toll may increase. The condition of many of the burnt people is said to be very serious.
Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab confirmed the fire and the number of casualties. Giving information about the number of bodies sent to various hospitals in the city, he wrote, “KMC fire department has so far confirmed that there have been 9 casualties in the fire incident.” “The search process is still ongoing,” he said in the post. But now the death toll has reached 11. Fire engines are busy extinguishing the fire.
50 people trapped in shopping mall rescued
According to fire department officials in Pakistan, around 50 people trapped inside RJ Shopping Mall on a busy road of the city have been rescued. Two snorkels, eight fire tenders and one bowser have been deployed to extinguish the fire. A spokesman for the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) said they had found nine bodies, while a rescue official said one body each had been shifted to Civil Hospital and Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Officials said there are still more people there and efforts are being made to bring them to safety. Officials said that the fire in the shopping center has been brought under control, while the cooling process is currently going on on one floor.
The cause of the fire is not known
The cause of the fire is not yet known. The fire that broke out on the second floor at around seven in the morning also engulfed the fourth, fifth and sixth floors of the shopping mall. The injured have been taken to the nearest health facility for treatment. Officials said the condition of six of the injured was critical. Rauf Hamid, who was rescued from the building, told Geo News that many people are still trapped. “When the fire broke out, we saved ourselves by running towards a safe room. The smoke was so intense that we could not understand what was happening.”
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