A Karachi airport manager and two fire officials have been suspended for mismanagement and negligence following an investigation into a fire incident that claimed eight lives.
According to Dawn, eight workers of a cargo facility were found dead at the airport hours after the security administration had reportedly cleared the premises and the flights operation that remained suspended for one night after a deadly gun battle with militants resumed on June 9.
But, a three-page report released to the media by the inquiry committee, headed by Air Commodore Noor Elahi Bajwa and comprising Ahmed Chinoy and Bashir Jan Mohammad, does not blame anyone.
The family of the eight workers created a ruckus outside the airport soon after flight operations had resumed, following the airport attack.
The relatives claimed that soon after the search for missing persons was over, they had received phone calls from the workers, saying that they were stranded in the cold storage facility and demanded that efforts be made to rescue them.
After much brouhaha, the fire fighting and rescue operation were relaunched and many hours later the eight workers were found dead.
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