A paramilitary soldier stands guard while shopkeepers and workers gather, after a fire broke out at a multi-story shopping mall, in Karachi, Pakistan November 25, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -A fire tore through a shopping mall in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Saturday, killing 10 people.
Geo News said the blaze started early in the morning at the multi-storey RJ shopping mall in Pakistan's most populous city.
Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui said in a post on social media platform X that 10 people had been killed and 22 injured in the fire.
"Fire had been extinguished & cooling process is going on," Siddiqui said in the afternoon.
The cause of the blaze was not immediately clear.
(Reporting by Charlotte Greenfield in Islamabad; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and William Mallard)
