KARACHI: The city’s recent hotel fire was investigated and the results termed the management guilty.
According to details in the report, fire broke out in the kitchen on Monday midnight but the management did not implement an alternate emergency plan. The kitchen staff informed the hotel security officer about the fire – who tried to put it out with two other staff members.
The report further said that the hotel should have had its own fire fighting team stationed in the hotel at all times – and a first aid team. The fire department was informed at least 30 minutes after the fire erupted.
The report revealed that one person was killed at the ground floor, five were killed at the second flood, two at the seventh floor, another killed at the fifth floor and one body was recovered from a room the next day. The report also stated that the duty manager tried to rescue people and in the process lost his life.
