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2/07/2012

Children among the dead in factory explosion in Pakistan

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Firemen trying to extinguish a fire factory in Karachi in March / March 2008 (Reuters - Archive)

Killed at least nine people - including women and children - in the collapse of the factoryMonday in Lahore, the largest city in eastern Pakistan.

According to police, it is likely that the incident was caused by a gas cylinder explosion ledto the collapse of the factory located in the densely packed neighborhood of Multan Road, which specializes in the manufacture of vaccines for animals, but it works illegally in a quarter of a century.

Still between 35 and 50 people under the rubble because of the explosion, which also fellclose to two houses, and wounded another 16 people.

And sheds light on the explosion, the lack of safety standards in the factories of Pakistan.A local official said a senior plant should have been closed.

The incident shed light on the employment of children many of whom were among the victims of the incident, a number of them are still under the rubble of the explosion.

Source: Agencies

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