LAHORE: At least ten people have been killed while several others including women and children are trapped under the rubble of a three-storey building of a pharmaceutical company which collapsed due to a boiler explosion,
Three houses alongside the building were also razed to the ground.
According to the details, ten dead bodies including that of a women and child and 12 injured people have been pulled out and shifted to the hospital.
Rescue workers and people continue to remove the debris in an effort to fear the approximately 50 people trapped inside. .
AFP adds: The three-storey building used to manufacture veterinary medicines came crashing down when a gas explosion ripped through the premises, police said.
Rescue workers dug through the rubble with bare hands, desperate to answer trembling cries for help from people trapped beneath concrete slabs as sobbing relatives urged rescuers to do everything possible to recover their loved ones.
Police said the factory was illegal without the proper registration and that they were looking to arrest its three partners.
The accident at the 25-year-old factory was likely to highlight poor safety procedures among Pakistani manufacturers and with a 12-year-old boy among the dead, the use of child labour.
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