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Article: City: No serious damage from fireworks on Shab-e-barat.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
- Article date:
- October 12, 2003
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Karachi Oct.12 (PPI):No serious incident of fire or injuries to any person was report after heavy usage of fireworks including crackers on Shab-e-barat, despite a ban on it by the District Government Karachi. The fire department received a total of 15 call at its 18 fire stations and some 5 calls were received at the Central Fire Office. However, vehicles were dispatched at few fires only as most of fires were too small in nature and some were hoax calls, and all such fires were put out by the residents, says an official. Fire tendered from Sohrab Goth station was dispatched to attend one large fire that had erupted at about 11.o clock in the thick bushes of Darul Aman ...