BANGLADESH: At least 49 people died and hundreds were injured after a fire sparked a huge chemical explosion at a shipping container depot in Bangladesh, officials said on Sunday. The toll was expected to rise, with some of the more than 300 people injured in serious condition, officials said, while volunteers reported that there were […]
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Four killed in a forest fire Chaksar area, Swat
ISLAMABAD: As many as four people including three female were burnt to death while battling the violent fire at a mountain forest in Chaksar area, Swat. The official of fire extinguishing department and others department concerns were rush to the site to rescue the people and also started operation to beat out the fire. The […]
Hot high speed winds rejuvenate fire in Margallas, 70 fire fighters deployed: Sherry
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman on Sunday said the bush fires rejuvenated in the Margallas at the boundary area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Islamabad due to hot high speed winds which was controlled in the morning. The Minister for Climate Change in a tweet said that fire fighting were going […]
CM removes DC, DHO, AC of Dadu over fire incident
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah while taking action over negligence have removed Deputy Commissioner (DC), District Health Officer (DHO), and Assistant Commissioner of Dadu with immediate effect here on Saturday. The action was taken against the negligence over fire-incident occured in the Faiz Mohammed Chandio village of district Dadu. The Chief Minister […]
3-storey dilapidated building catches fire in walled city
MULTAN: A three-story old dilapidated building caught fire in walled city area here on Friday prompting an hours-long rescue operation concluded successfully averting further spread of fire amid no direct access to the building in a narrow street of the congested area. Fortunately, there were no individuals in the old deserted building with elaborate […]
10 injured in Kuwait refinery fire
Kuwait City: A fire at a gas liquefaction unit in Kuwait’s largest refinery Friday left 10 people injured before it was put out, the plant’s operator said. The blaze “erupted during maintenance work” on the unit at Mina al-Ahmadi refinery, 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Kuwait City, state-owned Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) announced […]
New York apartment fire kills 19, including 9 children
NEW YORK: Nineteen people were killed, including nine children, and dozens were injured when a fire started by a malfunctioning space heater spread smoke through a low-income building in The Bronx borough of New York City on Sunday, city officials said. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, just over a week into the job, confirmed […]
Barcelona fire kills four, including two children
A fire ripped through an abandoned bank occupied by squatters in central Barcelona on Tuesday, killing four people, including a baby and a three-year-old boy, Spanish firefighters said. “While we were battling the fire, we found four people. Emergency services tried to revive them but unfortunately they failed, they could not do anything to save […]
Deadly fire in Karachi chemical factory kills 15 labourers
KARACHI: At least 15 labourers have lost their lives in a fire that broke out at a chemical factory in Karachi. According to the rescue sources, more labourers are still stuck in the wretched chemical factory premises actively engulfed by the fire. The operation to rescue stuck people is underway. About 20- […]
Hundreds evacuated by sea as wildfire reaches Turkish power plant
Turkish rescuers on Thursday began evacuating hundreds of villagers by sea after a deadly wildfire engulfed the outer edges of a thermal power plant storing thousands of tonnes of coal. An AFP team saw firefighters and police fleeing the 35-year-old Kemerkoy plant in the Aegean province of Mugla as bright balls of orange flame tore […]