23 dead, over 60 missing after Pakistan shopping centre fire smoulders for 24 hours

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Source: scmp.com
23 dead, over 60 missing after Pakistan shopping centre fire smoulders for 24 hours
Pakistani firefighters ‌began pulling bodies from the smouldering remains of a sprawling Karachi shopping centre on Monday where more than 60 people were still missing after a ‍massive fire that killed at least 23 people. The fire started late on Saturday at Gul Plaza, which houses 1,200 shops in a multi-storey complex spread across an area larger than a football field. The blaze in Karachi’s historic centre raged for more than 24 hours before it was mostly extinguished. Videos showed fierce...