KARACHI: A huge fire erupted in two warehouses containing solar panels and cosmetics in the Hawkesbay area on Tuesday (October 1), officials said. According to media reports, the fire at the solar panel warehouse was controlled after 12 hours but efforts were underway to put out the blaze in the cosmetics storage unit till late in...
On Wednesday, a fire broke out in Islamabad’s H-9 Sunday Market. It spread very quickly and engulfed nearly 300 stalls there. The fire tenders of Capital Development were unable to extinguish fire hence additional resources were called and they were able to stop the fire in two hours. According to the Deputy Commissioner Irfan Nawaz Memon,...
The development comes after the Chainstore Association of Pakistan (CAP) asked the CDA and the relevant authorities to reopen it since the mall’s management successfully fulfilled structural and safety prerequisites. Earlier, Additional District Magistrate headed a 7-member fact-finding committee, which discovered that the fire originated in the food court and it spread rapidly due to cooking...
Multan- Sukkur motorway: According to Radio Pakistan, 20 people were killed whereas six were injured as the speeding bus rammed into the oil tanker that caused the fire on M-9. The bus was carrying 24 passengers and two crew members and departed from Lahore for Karachi. Police said the oil tanker’s driver ran away from the...
Rawalpindi: Flames leaped and engulfed the bus at Rehmanabad Metro Station on Muree road, as the engine overheated. No casualties were reported as passengers successfully escaped from the bus. According to The News, Punjab Mass Transit Authority (PMTA) suspends Metro Bus Service (MBS) operations on Murree Road. In addition, the authority issued a report to the Punjab government...
