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July 7, 2020

Baldia factory fire, an act of terrorism not accident: JIT recommends filing new FIRs against accused

KARACHI: The Sindh government on Monday released the 26-page Joint Investigation Team report of the Baldia factory tragedy that claimed hundreds of innocent lives.The JIT in its conclusive report stated that the Baldia Town factory inferno incident was ‘a terrorism act’, rejecting it as an accident where more than 250 people had been burnt alive on September 11, 2012 in Karachi. The investigators revealed in the report that the factory had been torched by assailants over non-payment of...