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Friday, September 14, 2012

Pakistan is investigating the fire that killed more than 300 people



The Pakistani justice investigating the fire that caused nearly 300 deaths yesterday in a textile factory in the southern Karachi, and among the causes is the negligence of the owners and administrative corruption, local media reported today. First thing in the morning, rescue teams had not yet completed the tasks given by the property at Ali Enterprises still has not closed a definitive number of deaths. An official of Karachi firefighters, Zakir Husain, told Efe that have recovered 280 bodies, while local media, citing various sources, handle figures also close to three hundred dead. A judge of the High Court of Sindh province whose capital is Karachi, has begun a preliminary investigation and the regional government has also appointed a commission of inquiry headed by a judge, the newspaper Express Tribune. At the time of the fire was in the building close to a thousand workers, many of whom had come to withdraw their pay because yesterday was payday, which measures operating without fire, with barred windows and locked entrances. The tiny working conditions and safety in operating the thousands of textile factories in the country were used to convert the fire catastrophe. The point today means not only as responsible owners Ali Enterprises, who are in hiding disappeared, but also the corruption and inefficiency of the official bodies responsible for ensuring job security.

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