Chase departmental store fire: ‘Petrol tanks were placed in basement’
The fire that broke out on Wednesday at Chase departmental store has been doused and the cooling process is underway by the firefighting teams.
KARACHI: The fire that broke out on Wednesday at Chase departmental store has been doused and the cooling process is underway by the firefighting teams.
Sources told News360 that petrol tanks were placed in the basement of Chase store’s building by the administration which led to the uncontrollable high-intensity blaze at the departmental store.
However, the investigators did not give a clear statement about the reason for the blaze. They expressed suspicions that it could be a short-circuit that caused the dangerous fire at the Chase store, however, they continued probing into the incident to ascertain the facts.
The firefighting teams faced difficulties to douse the fire at Chase departmental store which continued to rage for two days.
On June 2, the owners of Chase department store and others had been nominated in the First Information Report (FIR) on charges of manslaughter following a horrible fire that broke out at a busy shopping centre in Karachi.
The FIR was lodged at Ferozabad police station under sections 322, 420, and 34 on the complaint of an official of the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) in which the Chase store’s owners and others were nominated including Adeel, Fahad and Faraz.
It read that the basement of the building was reserved for car parking but it was misused as a warehouse instead of the ground floor where the fire incident took place on June 1 at 11:30 am.
The horrible blaze claimed the life of one person and at least three people sustained injuries due to suffocation caused by the intense smoke.
The Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) declared the building dangerous after its structure was affected due to the fire at the departmental store.