Teenager dies in warehouse fire, three injured

Karachi

A young man was killed while four others received burn wounds after a warehouse, situated in SITE B area, caught fire following a gas-cylinder blast, on Tuesday.

Eighteen-year-old Mehtab died while Ayub, Akhter Javed and Allah Buksh, 28, were said to have been injured in the fire.

According to the Central Fire Station, the fire broke out at about 8:32 am at a warehouse situated on plot number 239-B, near Haroonabad situated in SITE-B. It was said to have spread in the entire storage house within minutes, causing a loss of millions of rupees.

Five fire engines of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) reached the spot and managed to extinguish the fire in two hours.

An official of the fire station claimed the workers had initially tried to put the fire out on their own and the fire station authorities were informed later on.

The owner of the warehouse, Ahmad Raza, was yet to be tracked down by the police.

The injured and the deceased were taken to the Civil Hospital; however, the 18-year-old breathed his last during treatment.

On January 24, at least 12 shops and three warehouses were reported to have been burnt after a major fire broke out at a warehouse used to store timber near New Sabzi Mandi.

Prior to that, a total of 14 vehicles suffered extensive damage as a fire broke out at a car showroom located within the Sharea Faisal police limits on January 14.  A day earlier, on January 13, a major fire broke out in the Nazarat behind Aziz Bhatti Park in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, turning 197 vehicles to ashes, along with three thatched huts.  The cause of that blaze had also not been ascertained.