{"id":449,"date":"2016-12-16T01:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T01:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2016-12-16T01:57:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T01:57:22","slug":"several-dead-scores-injured-in-pakistan-hotel-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2016\/12\/16\/several-dead-scores-injured-in-pakistan-hotel-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Several dead, scores injured in Pakistan hotel blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fire at a luxury hotel in the Pakistani city of Karachi killed at least 11 people and injured dozens on Monday, media reported.<\/h2>\n

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The blaze broke out in a ground-floor kitchen of the Regent Plaza hotel and trapped guests in upper floors, the English-language Dawn newspaper reported. The hotel has more than 400 rooms.<\/p>\n

Video footage showed some hotel guests using a chain of bed sheets to climb down from windows of top floors as smoke filled the hotel.\u00a0Karachi<\/a>\u00a0Mayor Waseem Akhtar told reporters the cause of the fire was not clear.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Many\u00a0Pakistani<\/a>\u00a0buildings have lax health and safety standards, while the city\u2019s firefighters are often equipped with poor and inadequate equipment.<\/div>\n

A Reuters cameraman said the fire had been contained by 9:30 a.m. (0430 GMT).<\/p>\n

Dawn reported at least 65 people were injured, citing a senior doctor at the city\u2019s biggest hospital.<\/p>\n

It is not clear if any of the victims were foreign tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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