Plastic factory gutted in Karachi fire

No loss of life reported in the incident

KARACHI: A plastic factory was gutted in fire in the SITE area on Monday. It took firefighters two hours to put out the blaze. However, no loss of life was reported in the incident.

The factory was located near Habib Bank Chowrangi within the limits of SITE A police station. The blaze erupted at around 2pm and quickly engulfed the entire building. Following the fire, employees working inside the building evacuated it.



Initially, two fire tenders were rushed to the site of fire, a fire brigade spokesperson said, adding that later, eight more fire tenders with two bowsers were also sent to the location to extinguish the blaze. According to the spokesperson, the fire tenders took around two hours to douse the fire and millions of rupees worth of plastic kept inside the building was destroyed. No casualty was reported in the blaze.

The fire brigade spokesperson added that the cooling of the building continued till the evening, while the actual cause of the fire has yet to be ascertained.