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Fire. On the morning of 25 November 2023, a short-circuited generator caused a fire on the fourth floor of the RJ shopping mall in Karachi, which at the time held more than 60 people. [ 2][ 1] The fire quickly spread, forcing the entire building to be evacuated and causing extensive property damage.
Two facilities in Karachi, Pakistan's New Karachi industrial sector, caught fire the night of 12 April 2023. The affected manufacturers produced towels and car parts in their respective industries. Firefighters and rescue workers were rushed in to contain the incident after it quickly spread. Four firefighters were killed and 13 others were ...
A fire destroyed a large part of the historic Stock Exchange Building in Copenhagen, Denmark, while the building was undergoing renovation. [191] 26 April – Porto Alegre fire. A fire at a hotel in Porto Alegre, Brazil killed ten and injured 11. [192] 22 May – A fire at an apartment in Hanoi, Vietnam, killed 14 people and injured six. [193]
A massive fire broke out Wednesday at a multi-story commercial building in Pakistan’s largest southern port city of Karachi, killing at least three people and damaging several shops, police and ...
2012 Pakistan factory fires. Factories in Pakistan 's two largest cities of Karachi and Lahore caught fire on 11 September 2012. The fires occurred in a textile factory in the western part of Karachi and in a shoe factory in Lahore. The fires are considered to be the most deadly and worst industrial factory fires in Pakistan's history, [ 3 ...
Interior view of dakhma Early 20th century drawing of the dakhma on Malabar Hill, Mumbai. A dakhma (Persian: دخمه), also known as a Tower of Silence, is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation (that is, the exposure of human corpses to the elements for decomposition), in order to avoid contamination of the soil and other natural elements by the decomposing dead ...
Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi East District, Pakistan. Statistics. Land use. Urban. Ignition. Cause. Bush fire. On 12 June 2022, a fire broke out in a bush near Aziz Bhatti Park in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi East District, burning hundreds of vehicles including 500 motorcycles, 6 to 7 vehicles, 2 rickshaws and a bus. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Missing. 4. On 27 April 2023, early in the morning, a fire broke out in a coach of the Karachi Express train, leaving at least seven people dead, including four children and a woman. The event happened as the train was traveling from Karachi to Lahore in Sindh's Khairpur district near Tando Masti Khan. It is yet unknown what started the fire.