Gas Leakage: Glass factory gutted

HARIPUR: A glass factory in Hattar Industrial Estate was gutted when a fire broke out on Monday. However no casualties or injuries were reported, the police and factory administration said. Hattar police quoted Ghani Glass Industry’s general manager as saying that a fire broke out due to gas leakage in one of the factory’s units while production was under way. As a result, the raw material in the boiler caught fire that engulfed the entire unit, burning down the building completely. Rescue workers rushed to the scene and doused the fire after a three-hour operation, the police added. The workers, however, managed to escape from the building. The estimated loss is said to be in millions of rupees.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 7^th, 2012.