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Over 300 killed in Pak factory fire

AP, Karachi
The death toll from a pair of devastating factory fires that broke out in Pakistan's two biggest cities rose to 314 yesterday.
Many of these people perished because they were unable to escape buildings that lacked emergency exits and basic safety equipment such as alarms and sprinklers.
The more deadly of the two blazes, which both erupted on Tuesday night, was at a garment factory' in the south-
ern city of Karachi.
The death toll there rose to 289 yesterday, as firefighters battled the flames for hours, said senior government official Roshan Ali Sheikh.
It was one of the worst industrial accidents in Pakistan's 65-year history, and Sheikh said the death toll could rise because rescue workers were still pulling bodies out from the site.
Most of the deaths were caused by suffocation as people caught in the
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basement were unable to escape when it filled with smoke, said the top firefighter in Karachi, Ehtisham-ud-Din.
The building only had one accessible exit, and all the other doors were locked, said Sheikh.
Relatives of the victims said tire factory owner locked the exit doors in response to a recent theft, thereby endangering the workers inside.
Workers on higher floors of the five-story building struggled to make it out of windows that were covered with metal bars.
"There were no safety measures taken in the building design. There was no emergency exit. All the people got trapped," said senior police official Amjad Farooqi.
Also on Tuesday night, a fire swept through a four-story shoe factory in the eastern city of Lahore, killing 25 people. Some died from burns and others from suffocation, said senior police officer Multan Khan.
The factory was illegally set up in a residential part of the city. The fire broke out when people in the building were trying to start their generator after the electricity went out.
Sparks from the generator made contact with chemicals used to make the shoes, igniting the blaze.
One of the workers, Muhammad Shabbir, said all the chemicals and the generator were located in the garage, which was also the only way out of the building.
A firefighter at the scene, Numan Noor, said the reason most of the victims died was because the main escape route was blocked.
Firefighters broke holes in the factory's brick walls to reach victims inside. At the morgue, bodies were lined up on a hallway floor, covered with white sheets.
Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf expressed his shock and grief over the deaths.