Tag: Fire

DAVOS - Human Rights Watch (HRW) fears that Egypt's army may open fire on protesters during demonstrations planned for Friday, the head of the New-York based group said on Thursday.
Police in Cairo have already fought thousands of Egyptians who defied a government ban on Wednesday to protest against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-old rule, firing rubber bullets and tear gas at the crowds and dragging away demonstrators.
"We are enormously fearful that the army would

ISMAILIA - Protesters in Suez set a government building on fire and tried to burn down a local office of Egypt's ruling party late on Wednesday, security sources and witnesses said. Protesters threw petrol bombs at the National Democratic Party office but failed to set it alight.
Police fired teargas to push the demonstrators back, they said. Officials in the city in Egypt's northeast ordered that shops be closed after incidents of looting were reported. Clashes with police left

ISLAMABAD - The fire erupted at a shopping centre in Islamabad's Blue Area on Sunday was broke out due to short circuit but it could have been averted, if the building had proper inbuilt fire safety system. "Fire broke out due to short circuit at the control room of a private office and it could easily be controlled if Co2 cylinder and Dry chemical Powder (DCP) were poured over the fire, which did not exist in the building",
Additional Director Fire brigade Zafar Iqbal told

MELBOURNE - Defending champion Roger Federer and 2008 winner Novak Djokovic roared into the Australian Open's second round on Monday, as Venus Williams eclipsed her women's rivals on day one.
In cool and cloudy conditions, Federer was irresistible as he banished 97th-ranked Slovakian Lukas Lacko 6-1, 6-1, 6-3, while Djokovic was also in destructive mood against Spain's Marcel Granollers. Federer, the world number two, broke Lacko's serve seven times and hit a stream of 37 winners

ISLAMABAD - A fire broke out at a shopping centre located in Blue Area on Sunday night that damage the building and goods worth millions of rupees, however no causality was reported.
Fire erupted at the forth floor of the shopping center after 9 pm and engulfed major part of the building in minutes. The fire-fighters reached the sight soon after the incident but failed to bring the flames down quickly due to the water shortage and lack of extinguishing equipments.
The city

DURBAN - Rohit Sharma blazed a half-century as India cantered to a 21-run win over South Africa in a one-off Twenty20 international at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Sunday.
After India won the toss and elected to bat, Sharma weighed in with 53 off 34 balls to help India total 168 for six. South Africa, despite a destructive innings of 67 off 39 deliveries from Morne van Wyk, managed only 147 for nine in their 20 overs, with India's off-spinner Yusuf Pathan and left-arm

LAHORE - Fire broke out in 'Hot n spicy' restaurant's kitchen in the police jurisdiction of the Defense D block in the late night hours on Saturday. No injures were reported.
Per details, fire erupted in the kitchen because of short circuit and engulfed the whole kitchen and some area of the first floor. Hotel management informed Rescue 1122 who rushed to the scene immediately and extinguished it in 15 minutes. Hotel management told Pakistan Today that no injures had been

LAHORE - Two minors died when fire erupted at a house at Gohava Colony located in South Cantonment police precincts at about noon on Friday. Fire erupted when minors, brothers, unmonitored by an elder, tried to light a stove.
The deceased were identified as Usman Muneer (7) and Adnan Muneer (5). According to Edhi officials Usman and Adnan were in their single room house, while their four elder brothers were playing outside and their mother, Samina, and father, Muneer, had gone

LAHORE - A 65-year-old disabled woman was burnt when fire erupted at her house at Pakistani Chowk, Ichra, in the early hours on Thursday. The deceased, Razia, lived in a two-story house with her daughter, her son-in-law, Tariq, and two children. Razia was alone at her house, which was locked from outside, when suddenly, owing to short circuiting, fire erupted in Razia's room. Flames soon engulfed the entire house. Locals called Rescue 1122 officials, who extinguished the fire. However

LAHORE - Valuables worth millions of rupees were reduced to ashes when fire broke out at four different places including a local garments factory and the Shah Alam Market on Sunday. Fire erupted at a local garments factory located at the main Ferozepur Road near the Awan Market due to short-circuit.
Flames engulfed three floors of the four-floor garments manufacturing unit and reduced valuables worth millions of rupees to ashes. Three labourers fell unconscious due to heavy smoke

LONDON - Rioting prisoners set fire to one block of a low-security prison in southern England early on Saturday and the flames were spreading because fire officers could not approach the building.
The riot at Ford prison near Arundel, West Sussex, broke out around midnight and involved about 40 prisoners who smashed windows and started fires, the BBC reported. Television pictures showed flames rising from the building. Prison staff were forced to leave and specially trained riot

NAROWAL - The Indian Border Security Forces opened indiscriminate firing at the working boundary at Sialkot Shaker Garh sector here on Wednesday to which Pakistani Punjab rangers retaliated immediately.
Indian BSF targeted the Imran Shaheed check post using 35 hand grenades and hundreds of bullets from Ram Pur (India) to which the Pakistani side replied by firing bullets. The issue will be raised in flag meeting with Indian forces, sources said.

ABIDJAN - Defiant Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo dug in his heels on Tuesday under a barrage of international criticism, as the United Nations defended its hard-pressed peacekeepers and threatened sanctions.
Both Gbagbo and his rival Alassane Ouattara claim to have won last month's Ivory Coast presidential election, but UN monitors and almost all of the world community recognised the challenger and has demanded Gbagbo step down.
Furious, the 65-year-old strongman ordered

FAISALABAD - A fire sparked by short circuit in a weaving factory destroyed the weaving material and machinery worth Rs 5 million. Reportedly, Maqsood Weaving Factory at Faizabad in Ghulam Muhammadabad area caught fire at night due to short circuit.
The fire engulfed the whole factory within no time and destroyed the weaving material and machinery worth Rs 5 million. Rescue 1122 service fire fighters took six hours to bring the fire under control.
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YEONPYEONG ISLAND - South Korea vowed on Saturday to go ahead with a live-fire drill on a border island bombarded by North Korea last month, despite the North's threat to strike back hard.
"There is no change in our stance with regards to the live-fire exercise," a defence ministry spokesman told AFP. On Yeonpyeong, focus of the latest flare-up which has sparked regional alarm, propaganda balloons were launched Saturday -- but no artillery shells.
The one-day firing training

LAHORE: Seven people received burn injuries when a fire erupted due to gas leakage in a LPG cylinder shop at the Bund Road in Islampura Police Station precincts on Sunday. According to Edhi officials, the fire erupted in a LPG cylinders shop owned by Rana Mudassar at the Bund Road near the Taj Company in Islampura Police Station precincts when someone threw a burnt cigarette near a leaking gas cylinder. As a result, the cylinder exploded and the fire engulfed whole shop.
After

SANTIAGO: Fire engulfed a prison in the Chilean capital early on Wednesday, killing 81 inmates and critically injuring 14 others, prison officials said, in the worst-ever accident in the country's jail system.
Officials said the fire was triggered during an early-morning fight between inmates in one of the crowded prison's five towers. Television footage showed part of the San Miguel prison in flames, black smoke billowing from the building.
Frantic relatives of the