Karachi hotel blaze kills 11
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A pre-dawn inferno at a four-star hotel in Pakistan's Karachi killed 11 people yesterday and wounded 75, police said, with desperate guests jumping from windows and scrambling down knotted bedsheets to escape.
The blaze at the Regent Plaza Hotel in the center of the port megacity broke out when many guests were still asleep, with a lack of fire alarms and emergency exits leaving many trapped in their rooms.
At least two cricketers were among the guests — Sohaib Maqsood and Hammad Azam — though they were not believed to be seriously injured.
"The hotel had no fire safety system and no fire exit to evacuate people, they had no fire alarm," Karachi mayor Waseem Akhtar said.
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