KARACHI: Fire in a garment factory in Landhi Industrial area was extinguished after an 18-hour-long rescue operation. The cooling process is underway.
No loss of life has been reported in the fire which broke out Friday afternoon. There was reportedly no labourer inside the factory at the time of the incident.
According to Director KMC Masood Alam, the fire was reported at 2:35 PM. He said that the fire brigade vehicles reached the site late due to traffic.
All fire tenders of the city had been called to douse the fire which reached the third-floor of the factory.According to fire brigade officials, 16 fire tenders and two water bowsers are took part in the fire-fighting operation at the factory.
A wall gave away on the third floor of the factory due to the intensity of the fire.
On December 8,12 people were killed and more than 110 injured in a blaze in a private hotel at Shahrah-e-Faisal. According to hotel sources, the fire broke out at 3 AM in the kitchen located in the basement of the hotel and travelled through the air conditioning ducts, engulfing a major part of the hotel in flames.