ALBAWABA - At least 55 people were killed in a fire that broke out inside a shopping mall in Pakistan, a Karachi government official told AFP on Thursday.
"A total of 55 bodies have been recovered since Saturday night" in the fire which erupted at Gul Plaza building, said Javed Nabi Khoso, deputy commissioner of Karachi's south district.
According to AFP, relatives of people who are still missing in the mall fire said that rescue work and search operations are slow.
Over 50 families have given DNA samples with the aim to identify their loved ones who were inside the 3-story building, provincial health official Summaiya Syed told journalists on Wednesday.
"We will hand over the bodies (remains) to the family, once DNA samples are matched," she said outside the Civil Hospital Karachi mortuary, AFP reported.
