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Day of disasters: Deadly fires in Pak, India
314 perish in twin blazes in Karachi garment factory & Lahore shoe unit
Karachi/Islamabad, September 12
Rescue workers and residents recover a body from a building after a fire at a shoe factory in Pakistan. A pair of devastating fires engulfed a garment factory in Karachi and a shoe unit in Lahore killing at least 314 persons, including women and children, in one of the worst industrial accidents in Pakistan.

Rescue workers and residents recover a body from a building after a fire at a shoe factory in Pakistan. — Reuters



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5 die in Khanna factory inferno; 16 hurt
Rescue operation in progress at the Khanna factory where a massive fire broke out.Khanna, September 12
 Five factory workers were charred to death and 16 critically injured in an explosion caused by a gas leak at a factory in Khanna town of Ludhiana district.

BATTLING IT OUT: Rescue operation in progress at the Khanna factory where a massive fire broke out. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan

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Cairo/Washington, September 12
 US ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed as a mob armed with guns and rockets stormed the American consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, angry over a film deemed offensive to Islam.

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Suicide pact by Yamunanagar family; 5 dead
Yamunanagar, September 12
 Five member of a family committed suicide by jumping before a passenger train near the Gandhi Nagar railway crossing here today. The family comprising Paramjit Singh, his wife Narinder Kaur, elder son Pritpal Singh, daughter Kirtpal Kaur and younger son Harjinder Singh jumped before the Saharanpur-bound passenger train near the Gandhi Nagar crossing.

Faridkot Maharaja's land in HP stirs up row
Faridkot, September 12
The Himachal Pradesh Government’s move to take over 280 bigha land belonging of the erstwhile Maharaja of Faridkot at Mashobra in Shimla has triggered a controversy. The government has declaring the land as surplus and reportedly started the process to vest it in the state.

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