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Updated 07 Feb, 2012 03:34pm

Lahore: Death toll rises 17 in factory collapse

The dead people includes 13 women.

On the previous day, 13 dead and 11 injured persons have been retrieved from the debris of a 3-storey medicine factory building that collapsed due to a cylinder/boiler blast at Multan Road in Lahore.

According to Rescue 1122 officials, the dead included 13 women, two men and a teenager, while all 11 injured had been shifted to Jinah Hospital. Those who lost their lives were identified as Salma, Fauzia, Nasrin, Maryum, Shakeela Iqbal and two men including Tanveer, Asif, a teenager and an unknown woman.

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