KARACHI: A pre-dawn inferno at a four-star hotel in the busy city here killed 11 people and wounded 75, police said, with desperate guests jumping from windows and scrambling down knotted bedsheets to escape.
The blaze at the Regent Plaza Hotel yesterday in the centre of the port megacity broke out when many guests were still asleep, with a lack of fire alarms and emergency exits leaving many trapped in their rooms.
