{"id":36461,"date":"2023-11-25T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T11:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=36461"},"modified":"2023-11-25T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T11:09:22","slug":"pakistani-shopping-mall-blaze-kills-at-least-10-people-and-injures-more-than-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=36461","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani shopping mall blaze kills at least 10 people and injures more than 20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KARACHI, Pakistan &#8212; A fire tore through a shopping mall in the southwestern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 20 others, police and local officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The multi-story RJ Mall is in a commercial high-rise that also houses call centers and software firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui said on X, formerly known as <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, that the fire had been extinguished and a cooling process was underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karachi is the capital of southern Sindh province, where such incidents are common. Earlier this year in April, a fire tore through a garment factory killing four firefighters. The flames ripped through the building, eventually causing it to collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News: KARACHI, Pakistan &#8212; A fire tore through a shopping mall in the southwestern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 20 others, police and local officials said Saturday. The multi-story RJ Mall is in a commercial high-rise that also houses call centers and software firms. Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the fire had been extinguished and a cooling process was underway. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear. Karachi is the capital of southern Sindh province, where such incidents are common. Earlier&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36463,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461\/revisions\/36463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}