Pakistan factory fires kill 191

[xchrom]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/12/pakistan-factory-fires-karachi-lahore


The fire rages in the factory in Karachi, where 166 people were killed. Photograph: Masroor/ Masroor/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Factory fires in Pakistan's two biggest cities have killed 191 people in a disaster blamed on barred windows, shoddy building standards and the flouting of basic safety regulations.

In the coastal megalopolis of Karachi 166 people were killed after becoming trapped in an underwear factory which caught fire on Tuesday evening. Many others were injured after trying to escape by jumping out of high windows of the five-floor building, including a pregnant woman.

That fire came just hours after a similar tragedy in an illegally built shoe factory in the central city of Lahore, which killed 21.

Pakistani television broadcast harrowing footage of the worst industrial disaster to hit the city of Karachi in decades.

[malaise]

1. Damn

I'd like to know the name of this outsourced underwear factory

[xchrom]

2. right? nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Not that you know it's "outsourced" at all

Pakistanis wear underwear themselves. They also grow cotton; even if the garments are exported, they could be an all-Pakistani product.

[malaise]

5. True but lots of the outsourced factories are

in various parts of the sub-continent

[liberal N proud]

3. If not for Unions, this sort of thing would happen in the US.

This is another reason to appreciate and support unions.