Karachi’s Millennium Mall fire: Firefighters extinguishes massive blaze

Rescue officials say that after several hours of intense work, firefighters were able to put out a fire that destroyed over 500 shops at a shopping mall in Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi, on Wednesday. The fire started in the mall’s control room and quickly spread to the roof within minutes, seriously damaging the third-floor corporate offices and control room. The fire department sent 12 fire tenders and two snorkel units to the scene right away, and no casualties were reported.