Islamabad, March 23 (IANS) Pakistani authorities suspect that drug addicts trying to steal copper from the basement may have caused the renewed fire incident at Karachi’s Gul Plaza, local media reported. On Sunday, the basement of Gul Plaza was engulfed in flames again, nearly two months after a deadly blaze at the same site claimed over 70 lives.Following the incident, the Acting Deputy Commissioner South, Amir Fazal Owaisi, said that the fire was probably caused by drug addicts, with further i…
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Islamabad, Feb 19 (IANS) At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed and 13 others were injured after a suspected gas explosion triggered a residential building collapse in the Soldier Bazaar area of Pakistan’s Karachi, local media reported on Thursday, citing rescue services. The incident took place at a house in Gul Raza Colony of Karachi’s Soldier Bazaar area. The injured and deceased people were taken to Civil Hospital, Pakistan’s leading daily, Dawn, reported.A District Ea…
Karachi, Feb 19 (IANS) At least six people were killed after a gas explosion triggered a partial building collapse in Pakistan’s Karachi, local media reported, quoting officials on Thursday. The blast took place at a house in Gul Rana Colony of the Soldier Bazar area, where a suspected gas leak is believed to have caused the explosion. Following the incident, emergency teams rushed to the spot and began rescue operations. So far, 11 people have been pulled out from the debris and shifted to a ne…
Islamabad, Feb 13 (IANS) An inspection of buildings conducted by the Sindh government committee has revealed that 91.3 per cent of the buildings in province lacked fire safety arrangements, Pakistani media reported on Friday. The government has decided to seal high-risk buildings which were found by the committee in violation of fire safety laws in Sindh. The committee was set up after the fire incident in Karachi’s Gul Plaza which claimed lives of nearly 80 people, injured hundreds and caused f…
Islamabad, Jan 26 (IANS) Shock has turned into anger in Pakistan’s Karachi as the death toll from the fire incident in Gul Plaza has increased to 73. The fire at Gul Plaza erupted on the night of January 17 and took nearly two days to fully extinguish it. So far, 73 people have died and over 1,100 shops are in ruins following the fire incident. “The clock resets for the building. Our faith in government, however, is stuck at zero,” journalist and podcaster Muna Khan wrote in Pakistan’s leading…
Islamabad, Jan 23 (IANS) Only one out of more than 160 high rise buildings in Rawalpindi district of Pakistan’s Punjab province meets the criteria of fire safety regulations set by the government, local media has reported. After the fire incident in Karachi’s Gul Plaza mall which has so far claimed 71 lives, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz ordered a survey and installation of fire hydrants in high rise buildings. All sensitive areas have been marked, re-analysed and relevant authorities have …
Islamabad, Jan 22 (IANS) The Human Rights Council (HRC) of Pakistan staged a protest outside Karachi Press Club, demanding the immediate resignation of Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab and strict legal action against those responsible for the Gul Plaza shopping mall fire that claimed at least 60 lives and left many injured.The massive fire that erupted at Gul Plaza on the night of January 17 triggered public outrage, with people slamming the Sindh government and the Karachi Mayor for the delayed act…
Islamabad, Jan 19 (IANS) The death toll in the Gul Plaza shopping mall fire in Pakistan’s Karachi climbed to 14 on Monday after the rescuers found eight more bodies from the site, local media reported.The search for over 70 missing people is still underway.The massive fire that erupted at Gul Plaza on Saturday night.People have slammed the Sindh government and the Karachi Mayor for the delay in the action.According to a report by the leading Pakistani daily Dawn, the blaze could have been contai…
Islamabad, Jan 18 (IANS) At least six people were killed and over a dozen were injured after a massive fire erupted at Gul Plaza shopping mall in Pakistan’s Karachi, local media reported on Sunday, citing officials. The death toll increased after the body of a firefighter named Furqan, belonging to the Nazimabad Fire Office, was found under the rubble and taken to the Civil Hospital Trauma Centre, Pakistan-based Geo News reported.The operation to contain the blaze is still underway, with fire ra…