Deadly blaze rips through Karachi shopping mall


Feeling the heat: Onlookers gathering as firefighters try to control a massive fire that broke out in a multi-storey shopping mall, in Karachi. — AP

A massive fire swept through a multistory shopping mall in Pakistan’s largest southern city of Karachi, killing at least three ­people and injuring about a dozen others, police and rescue officials said.

Firefighters and rescue ­workers rushed to the Gul Plaza shortly after 10pm local time on Saturday following reports of the blaze, police and rescuer officials said.

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