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KARACHI, Sept 5: A fireman received injuries while struggling to extinguish a major fire that had broken out in a factory in Site on Tuesday.
Almost an entire fleet of city’s fire tenders was employed to put out the raging fire which had broken out in stored chemicals, a spokesman for the fire department said.
Plastic and other flammable material further added fuel to the fire, the spokesman added.
A section of the roof of factory also collapsed due to fire, and fireman Naveed was injured in the incident. He was shifted to Jinnah Hospital where he was reported to be unconscious.
A settlement of some 40 to 50 houses located close to the factory which could have been engulfed by the fire was evacuated by the fire department and police.
However, fire was contained in the factory premises. “The cause of fire could not be ascertained immediately”, Chief fire officer Kazim Ali said.
Due to the water shortage, the fire department had to use filthy water from a storm-drain in the fire fighting operation.
BODY FOUND: A bullet-riddled body of a taxi driver was recovered from his cab in Ferozabad area on Tuesday.
Police said that the taxi was found abandoned at the service road near Jason Trade Centre.
When police searched the site, they recovered the body stuffed in a gunny bag. Police later identified the victim as Mukhtar, 23, a resident of Azam Basti.
The body was shifted to the Jinnah Hospital for postmortem where hospital sources said the victim had suffered two bullet wounds in his abdomen.
