{"id":83665,"date":"2023-11-25T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/pakistan-fire-shopping-centre-blaze-kills-at-least-10-people-and-injures-more-than-20-others-in-karachi-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-25T13:19:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T13:19:21","slug":"pakistan-fire-shopping-centre-blaze-kills-at-least-10-people-and-injures-more-than-20-others-in-karachi-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/pakistan-fire-shopping-centre-blaze-kills-at-least-10-people-and-injures-more-than-20-others-in-karachi-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan fire: Shopping centre blaze kills at least 10 people and injures more than 20 others in Karachi | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2>Pakistan fire: Shopping centre blaze kills at least 10 people and injures more than 20 others in Karachi | World News<\/h2>\n<p>Pakistan fire: Shopping centre blaze kills at least 10 people and injures more than 20 others in Karachi | World News<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/23\/11\/70x70\/skynews-shopping-centre-mall_6371479.jpg?20231125120524\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>At least 10 people have been killed and 22 injured after a fire tore through a shopping centre in Pakistan&#8217;s largest city.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly blaze is reported to have broken out at the multi-storey RJ Mall in Karachi early on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The centre is located in a commercial tower block that also houses call centres and software firms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\">\n        <span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\">Rescue workers recover the bodies of victims<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an update on social media confirming the number of casualties, Karachi mayor Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui said: &#8220;Fire had been extinguished &amp; cooling process is going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more on Sky News:<\/strong><br \/><strong>Five dead and four injured in avalanche<\/strong><br \/><strong>George Floyd&#8217;s killer Derek Chauvin stabbed in prison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blaze was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>Karachi is the capital of the southern province of Sindh, where such incidents are common.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\">\n        <span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\">Grieving relatives comfort each other<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Back in April, a blaze at a clothing factory killed four firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2021, at least 10 people died in a fire at a chemical factory in the same city.<\/p>\n<p>In the deadliest such incident, more than 260 people were killed after being trapped inside a garment factory when a fire broke out in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631\" href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/pakistan-fire-shopping-centre-blaze-kills-at-least-10-people-and-injures-more-than-20-others-in-karachi-13015620\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lenkaed.com\" title=\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Pakistan fire: Shopping centre blaze kills at least 10 people and injures more than 20 others in Karachi | World News\" href=\"\/\">Pakistan fire: Shopping centre blaze kills at least 10 people and injures more than 20 others in Karachi | World News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan fire: Shopping centre blaze kills at least 10 people and injures more than 20 others in Karachi | World News Pakistan fire: Shopping centre blaze kills at least 10 people and injures more than 20 others in Karachi | World News At least 10 people have been killed and 22 injured after a fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estaql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}