KARACHI: A fire broke out at a shopping center located in Karachi’s Defense area on Friday night that engulfed several shops and burnt cloth worth millions, officials and shop owners said.
The blaze erupted late on Friday night at the second storey of a shopping center in Defense Phase-1, according to fire brigade officials. The fire has not yet been brought under control despite three hours of efforts.
Eight fire tenders of the Clifton Cantonment Board and Karachi Municipal Corporation are busy in efforts to extinguish the blaze. A snorkel has also been deployed at the scene to put out the fire.
Cloth worth millions had been reduced to ashes in the wake of blaze, said shop owners present at the spot. They also questioned firefighting capability of concerned departments.
