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Death toll in factory fires in 2 major Pakistani cities rises The death toll from a pair of devastating factory fires that broke out in Pakistan’s two biggest cities rose on Wednesday .
Sept. 12, 2012
People gather at the site of burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan. The death toll from a pair of devastating factory fires that broke out in Pakistan’s two biggest cities rose to 314 on Wednesday.
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Sept. 12, 2012
Pakistani rescuers collect evidence in a shoe-making factory following a fire which gutted the facility the previous night in Lahore. Twenty five people reportedly perished in the blaze. The fire broke out when people in the building were trying to start their generator after the electricity went out. Sparks from the generator made contact with chemicals used to make the shoes, igniting the blaze.
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Sept. 12, 2012
Pakistani rescuers move the dead body of a garment worker in Karachi. The death toll there rose to 289 people Wednesday, as firefighters battled the flames for hours, said senior government official Roshan Ali Sheikh. Sheikh said the death toll could rise because rescue workers were still pulling bodies out from the site.
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Sept. 12, 2012
Pakistani rescue workers load a dead body into an ambulance after recovering from a burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan. Most of the deaths were caused by suffocation as people caught in the basement were unable to escape when it filled with smoke, said the top firefighter in Karachi, Ehtisham-ud-Din.
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Sept. 12, 2012
Ambulances and fire brigade vehicles park outside the burned-out garment factory in Karachi. The building only had one accessible exit, and all the other doors were locked, officials said. Relatives of the victims said the factory owner locked the exit doors in response to a recent theft.
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Sept. 12, 2012
A Pakistani weeps beside the ambulances parked at the garment factory. Workers on higher floors of the five-story building struggled to make it out of windows that were covered with metal bars. Many were injured when they jumped from the building.
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Sept. 12, 2012
A woman holds a portrait of her son while waiting with others to identify his body in Karachi. Although some workers escaped the blaze by jumping from windows, others weren’t so lucky. An Associated Press reporter saw a charred body partially hanging out one of the factory’s barred windows. It appeared the victim tried to escape but couldn’t make it through the bars.
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Sept. 12, 2012
Relatives mourn their loved ones, who were killed in a fire at a garment factory, after their bodies were brought to the Jinnah hospital morgue in Karachi. The factory’s managers have fled and are being sought by police, officials say.
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Sept. 12, 2012
A woman looks for her missing family member at a morgue in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Sept. 12, 2012
Pakistani firefighters extinguish a fire that erupted in a garment factory in Karachi.
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Sept. 12, 2012
Pakistani rescuers collect evidence in a shoe-making factory following a fire which gutted the factory the previous night in Lahore.
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Sept. 11, 2012
Residents gather while firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a shoe factory in Lahore.
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Sept. 11, 2012
A fireman tries to extinguish a fire at a factory in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Sept. 11, 2012
Pakistani rescuers work to evacuate garment factory workers from a factory in Karachi.
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Sept. 11, 2012
Pakistani firefighters and rescuers work to evacuate a garment factory in Karachi.
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