From Democracy Now
Pakistani authorities have registered a murder case against factory owners and government officials after a Karachi factory blaze killed nearly 300 people Tuesday in the country’s worst industrial disaster. As relatives mourned the dead Thursday, survivors said factory managers had intentionally locked the building’s main 30-foot sliding door, trapping workers, in order to save a stock of stonewashed jeans due for export to Europe. The move reportedly left hundreds of workers trapped in the blaze with just one available exit. Relatives of the victims gathered at the factory Thursday to search for the bodies of their loved ones.
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