(21 Aug 2025)
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Karachi, Pakistan – 21 August 2025
1. Smoke coming out from a fireworks storage facility, ambulance and firefighting engines near site
2. Various of banners, smoke, Pakistan’s flag
3. Firefighters in crane
4. Various of firefighters and people near site
5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Afaq Ahmed Khan, rescue worker:
"This is a fireworks storage facility, an old one. It was previously located in another building in the neighborhood but was recently relocated here. First, two large explosions were heard, followed by the sound of firecrackers. Now, people have gathered here."
6. Mid of a broken window
7. Various of people and rescuers at site
STORYLINE:
An explosion at a fireworks storage facility in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Thursday injured at least 25 people, some of them critically, police and hospital officials said.
Thick smoke was seen billowing into the sky from the building where firecrackers were stored.
Broken glass from nearby shop windows littered the road as panicked residents rushed from the scene, witnesses said.
Firefighters were working to extinguish the blaze while ambulances transported the injured, including passersby, to several hospitals, senior police official Asad Raza said.
The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear.
The blast damaged several shops and vehicles passing through an area known as Jinnah Road.
Explosions at fireworks facilities are common in Pakistan.
In January, six people were killed in a similar blast at a fireworks storage site in Mandi Bahauddin, a city in the eastern Punjab province.
AP video shot by Muhammad Farooq
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