The Sindh High Court
in Pakistan has instructed the provincial government and other relevant parties
to submit their reports on the Karachi clothing factory fire within the next
week. What was perhaps the worst
factory fire in history killed at least 258 people on September 11.
There were about
400 people working at the Ali Enterprises factory when a boiler exploded and
set alight chemicals stored in the building.
It is claimed that exit doors were locked and that windows were covered
with iron bars.
Many of the
victims died from suffocation, while some of those who managed to jump from
upstairs windows survived, though often at the cost of fractured limbs. Eventually rescue workers had to break
down one of the walls to get access to the upper floors.
A few hours
earlier, a fire had broken out in a shoe factory in Lahore when sparks from a faulty generator set fire
to chemicals. At least 25 people were
killed.
* London’s
deadliest post-war fire - forgotten by many, but not by the Londonist website
(or by me) http://londonist.com/2012/10/londons-forgotten-disasters-the-denmark-street-fire.php
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