Fire guts over 150 huts in Karachi. Over 150 huts were reduced to ashes in a fire that broke out at a shanty town in the Gulshan-e-Qadri area of Malir in Karachi on Tuesday.
The fire started in the huts which extent very rapidly and destroyed more than 150 huts. At least three persons were injured in the blaze and were lifted to hospital by the rescue personnel.
As many as eight fire brigade vehicles managed to extinguish the flames later a hectic operation and now the cooling process was underway.
The shanty tenants residing in the huts in Malir No 15 were emptied safely, said the rescue officials.
Three people with a woman, though, continued critical burns in the fire and shifted to the hospital for treatment.
According to fire brigade personnel, the cause of the blaze was still not known.
In November 2021, a fire ruined about 100 huts when the blaze erupted in a slum in Karachi. The fire erupted in the dwellings along the Lyari River, under a bridge in central Karachi in the Teenhatti neighborhood. Almost 10 firetrucks had managed to extinguish the flames later numerous hours.
A related fire in 2020 had shattered about a hundred of the burlap-and-plastic houses in the same neighborhood, whose residents get by generally by working odd jobs and begging.
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Thousands live in open areas beside the Lyari. Some have tin roofs but the bulk of the houses are made up of cane, burlap and plastic.