At a fire in the slums of Karachi killed 38 people.

At least 38 people were killed and 25 were seriously injured in a Friday night in a fire in a poor district of Karachi in southern Pakistan, the agency sends France Presse.Po these doctors, 15 children among the dead and 12 women. The fire began around midnight local time (22:00 Moscow Thursday), when most of the slum-dwellers are already asleep.
The fire has destroyed at least 30 huts, which are home to 200 people. According to preliminary data, there was a fire when an electric wire fell on the roof of one of the buildings. The platform on which the huts were built, with three sides is limited to the walls of houses. Most likely, speculated fire, people died, did not manage to get to the exit, which was blocked by fire.
In the port of Karachi for more than half the population lives in slums, like a travel agent. Occurred in the Thursday fire was the largest since December 2006, when at a wedding in the fire killed 22 people.