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Around 115 bodies have been handed back to families for burial.

Labour organisation calls for national action to protect workers from workplace hazards.

Pakistan has no law on emergency exits.

PML-N, Jamaat-e-Islami and PTI announce three days of mourning.

Says the capacity to fight fires even in the country’s biggest city is questionable at best.

The 2008 Berger Paints fire was more intense but none of the workers were killed because of an emergency exit system.

No checks have been held in Sindh since Musharraf’’s time.

Corrupt government officers and factory owners blamed for disaster.

Fireman Feroze Khan had not seen anything like it in his 29-year career.

Nationalists parties acknowledge disaster, but vow to push on with strike.