Textile mill fire: Equipment worth millions destroyed

Textile mill in Block B of North Nazimabad in ruins after a fire broke out inside its premises.

KARACHI: A textile mill in Block B of North Nazimabad was gutted after a fire broke out inside its premises. While no deaths or injuries to anyone was reported, machinery and merchandise worth millions of rupees went up in smoke.

Five fire tenders arrived at the site and it took firefighters almost two hours to douse the fire. The mill had been closed down several years ago and a large quantity of merchandise and machinery were stocked inside, according to the firefighters. They added that people living in the area were evacuated from their homes in order to avoid any untoward incident.

The cause of the fire has yet to be ascertained.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 9^th, 2012.