KARACHI: A fire broke out on Saturday in the emergency ward of Karachi's Abbasi Shaheed Hospital situated in the Paposh Nagar neighborhood of Nazimabad.

Two fire tenders have arrived at the location and the fire was brought under control. Patients were distressed as fire erupted in the emergency ward, which is situated opposite the gynecology ward of the hospital.

The process for controlling the fire began approximately after 18 minutes after the fire broke.