PAKISTAN: PART OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY BUILDING COLLAPSES AND KILLS THREE PEOPLE

Record ID: 216710

  • Title: PAKISTAN: PART OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY BUILDING COLLAPSES AND KILLS THREE PEOPLE
  • Date: 19th December 2002
  • Summary: (W4) KARACHI, PAKISTAN (DECEMBER 19, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF RESCUE WORK AT SITE OF COLLAPSED BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. SLV OF RESCUE WORKERS AT SITE TRYING TO CLEAR THE DEBRIS IN SEARCH OF BODIES 0.15 3. WIDE OF STREET WITH DEBRIS AND OVER TURNED VEHICLE 0.19 4. WIDE OF RESCUE WORKERS CLEARING DEBRIS 0.24 5. WIDE OF
  • Embargoed: 3rd January 2003 12:00
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  • Location: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVAB197YL5PKQX5HXGD0SXDQH727
  • Story Text: A stockroom of a pharmaceutical company in southern
    Karachi has collapsed, killing all three people inside the
    building.



    The two storey building in the eastern part of port
    city of Karachi collapsed on Thursday (December 19, 2002), killing
    two men and one woman. Police and rescue workers combed the
    debris, but no survivors were found.

    The explosion was so intense that it destroyed the entire
    building and also damaged neighbouring houses.

    Eyewitness Mohammad Aqil Kapraywala said that he heard a
    blast just before the building collapsed.

    "Around 9.30 (0430 GMT) in the morning a huge bang was
    heard after which this building collapsed damaging the
    neighbouring house as well. It was so intense that a Suzuki
    van inside the building came flying out of the building onto
    the road and a body of a woman who was inside the building
    fell into the neighbouring house. Bodies of two men and a
    woman were taken out," he said.

    City Police Chief, Tariq Jamil said that the actual blast
    occurred in the house situated at the back of the building. He
    said that the cause of the collapse had not yet been
    determined.

    "These were two small houses, 80 square yards houses. The
    one at the rear belongs to a person who owns a pharmaceutical
    company. He had stored some raw material used in the
    pharmaceutical company, bags are still lying there. But the
    actual explosion had taken place in the other house which is
    at the rear. Unless we remove the debris it is difficult to
    tell the cause of explosion. Bomb disposal experts are
    reaching here and as the debris is removed, they will be able
    to say with some authority as to what is the cause of the
    explosion," said Jamil.


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