An "Accident" at pharmaceutical company facility in Lahore?

Nikema · February 6, 2012, 7:11am

I Hope its just me and I am wrong that this “accident” at a pharmaceutical company in Lahore seems a little fishy considering what else is happening in that industry?

At least 50 people were feared trapped under rubble of a three-storey building of a **pharmaceutical company **that collapsed due to a boiler explosion, Geo News reported.

Three houses alongside the building also razed to the ground.

According to the details, two dead bodies and five injured people have been pulled out and shifted to the hospital. The rescue workers and people were trying to remove the debris.

The factory watchman told that at least 17 workers were inside the factory when it collapsed.

Reuters add: “The factory has completely collapsed and two houses next to it as well,” an emergency official at the site told Reuters by telephone, adding authorities were having trouble getting heavy rescue machinery to the area because of narrow streets.

Karamat Ali, a spokesman for the government Rescue 1122 emergency service, said three dead, including a 10-year-old boy, and 13 survivors had been pulled out of the rubble.

He said 17 women and 45 men were at work when the factory, which produced veterinary medical products, crumbled, and the death toll was expected to rise.

Rescue workers and residents were shifting rubble by hand.

CM · February 6, 2012, 7:14am