2500 Shops Gutted in Arson Attacks: Karachi

KARACHI, Pakistan News: Around 2500 shops have been gutted in arson incidents in the business district of Karachi after Youm-e-Ashur suicide attack at a mourning procession in the metropolis that killed 40 people and injured several others.

The fire tenders still fighting blazes raging in the area located largest wholesale markets of the country.

Several vehicles were also set on fire after the bombing.

A traders body leader Fahim Noori has said the traders have suffered rs 20 to 30 billion losses in arson attacks in which 1500 to 3000 shops were set on fire by the miscreants.

Fahim Noori posed question the authorities, who provide such dangerous inflammable material to the miscreants, which rapidly spread the fire.

President Karachi Chamber has called a meeting this afternoon to set strategy, he said.