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Relatives comfort each other as they mourn the death of a family member, who was killed, after a fire broke out at a multi-story shopping mall, at hospital morgue in Karachi, Pakistan November 25, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
Pakistan shopping mall fire kills at least 10
The cause of the blaze was not immediately clear.
26 November 2023
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ISLAMABAD, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A fire tore through a shopping mall in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Saturday, killing 10 people.
Geo News said the blaze started early in the morning at the multi-storey RJ shopping mall in Pakistan's most populous city.
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Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui said in a post on social media platform X that 10 people had been killed and 22 injured in the fire.
"Fire had been extinguished & cooling process is going on," Siddiqui said in the afternoon.
The cause of the blaze was not immediately clear.
