4 bodies recovered after factory blaze in Pakistan's Karachi
STORY: 4 bodies recovered after factory blaze in Pakistan's Karachi
DATELINE: April 13, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:57
LOCATION: Islamabad
CATEGORY: OTHERS
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1. various of site of the factory blaze
STORYLINE:
Bodies of four firefighters were recovered from the rubbles of a collapsed factory in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Thursday morning, rescue teams said.
A massive fire broke out in the multi-story building of a bedsheet factory on Wednesday morning and a dozen fire engines worked to douse it, Salman Qureshi, a firefighter from Saylani Welfare Trust told Xinhua.
"The firefighters were working at the incident site when part of the factory collapsed, trapping several people under the debris," Qureshi said.
Karachi's Central District Deputy Commissioner Taha Saleem said that the fire was contained on early Thursday morning, and a cooling operation was underway.
He said that fire erupted in the building due to a short circuit and it got worse because the firefighters could not take big eng
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