A group of people was saved from a burning car at Karachi’s Shahrah-e-Faisal by rescue officials on Friday.

The fire was brought under control after some time, the Sindh Rescue 1122 said and added that no one was hurt in the incident.

They added that the fire broke out due to a short circuit in the electrical system of the car.

In October 2023, two brothers and their cousins were killed when a speeding car caught fire after ramming into a truck on the Hazara Expressway’s Pano Dehri Interchange.

The car was carrying four members of a family to Abbottabad from College Doraha when it crashed against a truck at the Pano Dehri Interchange before entering the Hazara Expressway.

At least five people were killed and two others injured when a fire erupted in the Arshi shopping mall of Karachi’s Ayesha Manzil on December 7. Several cars and dozens of motorcycles that were parked around the building were gutted.

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Earlier this month, Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab said that only six out of 266 buildings on the city’s three main corridors, II Chandrigar Road, Sharea Faisal, and Shahrah-e-Quaideen have fire safety facilities, while more than 200 buildings do not have fire extinguishers.

“According to an audit report, 62% of the buildings did not have emergency exits, while 70% of the buildings were found to have substandard electrical wiring. Only 90 of the 266 buildings had fire alarms and smoke detectors,” he said while reviewing the fire safety audit report of the buildings located around the three main highways of Karachi presented by the fire brigade department of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation.