{"id":22555,"date":"2025-10-08T18:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22555"},"modified":"2025-10-08T18:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:04:32","slug":"fire-guts-fabric-store-near-north-karachis-bara-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22555","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts fabric store near North Karachi&#8217;s Bara Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A fire broke out at a fabric store near Bara Market in North Karachi on Wednesday, reducing cloth and other merchandise worth millions to ashes, according to rescue officials.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze erupted in Sector 5-C\/2 of North Karachi, prompting an immediate response from Rescue 1122 teams, ambulances, and fire brigade units, who rushed to the scene upon receiving reports of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>After an intense operation, firefighters managed to bring the blaze under control and initiated cooling efforts to prevent re-ignition. Despite the swift response, rescue officials confirmed that the shop\u2019s entire stock, including expensive fabric and other goods worth millions,\u00a0was completely destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read: PM Shehbaz removes ban on domestic gas connections<\/p>\n<p>Station House Officer Sarfaraz Rajput of Khawaja Ajmer Nagri Police Station said the fire started in a ground-floor fabric shop located beneath a residential building near Bara Market.<\/p>\n<p>Initial investigations indicated that the cause of the fire was an electrical short circuit. Fortunately, no casualties or injuries were reported. Authorities said a detailed assessment of the losses and the exact cause of the blaze is currently underway.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out at a fabric store near Bara Market in North Karachi on Wednesday, reducing cloth and other merchandise worth millions to ashes, according to rescue officials. The blaze erupted in Sector 5-C\/2 of North Karachi, prompting an immediate response from Rescue 1122 teams, ambulances, and fire brigade units, who rushed to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}