Two burnt alive in Karachi cylinder shop fire
Pakistan
Factory catches fire in Peshawar
KARACHI (Dunya News) - Two people were burnt alive in an explosion occurred in a shop of LPG cylinders in Federal B Area here on Saturday night.
Rescue 1122 and police rushed to the blast site and started a rescue operation. The dead bodies were shifted to hospital.
The shop caught a fire after the cylinder explosion. In the inferno, two persons lost their lives.
PESHAWAR FIRE
A fire erupted in a five-storey factory in Hayatabad Industrial area. Over 40 firefighting vehicles and 150 firefighters had been busy bringing the fire under control for the last 11 hours, according to Rescue 1122.
The intensity of the inferno was reduced but it could not be controlled fully till filing this report. Hundreds of thousands of rupees valuables were gutted in the fire.
Rescuers feared the building could collapse anytime due to the fire. The firefighters from Swabi, Mardan, District Khyber and Nowshera were taking part in the operation. Several firefighters suffered critical condition during the firefighting efforts.
