Tag: Factory
IN FLAMES…
A fierce fire that broke out in a chemical factory in the SITE area was brought under control after 30 hours. The building, almost...
German firm to compensate Karachi factory fire victims
A German discount clothing retailer has agreed to pay more than $1.2 million compensation for victims of a factory fire, a union leader said...
Mortar shell kills 4 workers at Bara factory
Four labourers were killed when a mortar shell landed at a factory in the Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Wednesday. According to official...
Who’s responsible?
We cannot forget the loss of precious lives in the tragic fire incident in Karachi garment factory, leaving behind the families of dead workers...
Court refuses bail to Baldia factory owners
A local court on Saturday dismissed bail pleas of owners and a general manager of Baldia Town factory which consumed at least 258 lives...
Law takes it course!
A local court on Saturday dismissed bail pleas of owners and a general manager of Baldia Town factory which consumed at least 258 lives...
Another factory up in flames
A fire broke out in a factory in Shershah, wounding a fire fighter attempting to douse the fire, on Friday. The cotton warehouse located...
Factory fire in Karachi injures two
A factory in Karachi’s Shershah area caught fire on Friday injuring two people including a firefighter.
According to media reports, a tissue paper and diaper...
Raging fire reduces factory to ashes
At least four fire fighters fell unconscious when fire engulfed an oil factory near Paracha Chowk in Shershah on early hours of Saturday morning....
Inspectors certified factory as safe before disaster: report
A prominent factory monitoring group heavily financed by industry gave a clean bill of health to a Karachi apparel plant last month, just weeks...
Factory infernos
And lack of government oversight on industries
The basic facts about the two fires in Karachi and Lahore last week are now fairly well known....
Factory owners directed to install fire safety mechanism
The Rawalpindi Commissioner has directed all the owners of factories, government and private offices, mills, educational institutions, bus stands and shopping centers in the...
Businessmen to compensate affected families: Ebad
Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad said on Sunday the business community had decided to give compensation to the affected families of fire incident in...
Factory fire: FIA takes possession of files
The Federal Investigations Agency has take over the files of charred factory in Baldia Town Karachi after the authorities declared the building dangerous and...
Sabotage can’t be ruled out in factory fire: Interior Minister
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Sunday that the possibility of sabotage in the Karachi garment factory fire that killed at least 259 people...
Investigation goes on: Ebad
Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad has said that the investigation to ascertain the causes of a garment factory fire in Karachi is going on.
Talking...
Baldia Town factory owners ‘go underground’
After appearing in a police station, here the proprietors of the “holocaust factory”, which became a homicidal gas chamber for hundreds of workers, have...
