AceBreakingNews – A fire tore through a shopping mall in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 22 others, according to local authorities.
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Pakistani Geo News said the blaze started early in the morning at the multi-storey RJ shopping mall, which is in a commercial high-rise that also houses call centres and software firms.
The fire department dispatched eight fire trucks after being alerted at 6:30 am local time.
Chief fire officer Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan said the fourth floor of the building was the most affected.
More than 60 people were inside the mall when the fire broke out.
Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui said in a post on social media platform X that the fire had been extinguished and a cooling process was underway.
He said that five of the 22 injured were in critical condition.
“We are trying our best to do whatever it takes to save their lives and to provide them with whatever treatment that is required for saving their lives,” Mr Siddiqui told reporters.
The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.
Karachi is the capital of southern Sindh province, where such incidents are common.
Earlier this week, city planners and engineers said they were sure that most structures in Karachi — residential, commercial and industrial — did not have fire prevention and firefighting systems, Pakistan’s largest English-speaking paper Dawn reported.
“They agreed that it was ‘criminal negligence’ on the part of regulatory bodies like the Sindh Building Control Authority that put the lives of millions of people in the metropolis at risk,” the report claimed.
Earlier this year in April, a fire tore through a garment factory killing four firefighters and eventually causing the building to collapse.
In August 2021, at least 10 people were killed in a fire at a chemical factory in the same city. In the deadliest such incident, 260 people were killed after being trapped inside a garment factory when a fire broke out.
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