No less than 11 people were burnt to death when a ragging fire swept through a four-star hotel in the southern port city of Karachi in Pakistan on Monday.
According to officials, the exact cause of the fire which claimed close to a dozen lives with four of those killed being women, could not be ascertained.
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More than 50 people suffered injuries in the early morning blaze, which started in the hotel kitchen, police officer Tauqeer Naeem said.
Dr. Semi Jamali at Karachi’s Jinnah’s Hospital said some foreigners were among those being treated for burns. Suffocation caused more deaths, she said.
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