Holding out hope: A rescuer using an excavator to remove rubble from the collapsed factory in search of survivors in Lahore. (left) Volunteers saving a man trapped underneath the rubble. — AFP/AP
LAHORE: At least 19 people were killed and scores injured when the roof of a factory collapsed near the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, officials said, with around a hundred more still trapped.
The Wednesday incident comes less than two weeks after a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake ripped across Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing nearly 390 people, levelling thousands of homes, and causing structural damage to major buildings.
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