Fire at hotel in Pakistan kills at least 11
At least 11 people were killed and more than 50 injured early Monday when a huge fire swept through the Regent Plaza Hotel in Karachi, Pakistan.
Police say the fire started in the hotel kitchen, but the exact cause is undetermined. A doctor at a Karachi hospital where victims were taken said several deaths were caused by suffocation, and there are foreigners being treated for burns. Local television news crews captured footage of guests at the four-star hotel using sheets to climb down from windows, and survivor Hamid Ali told one station that a man was standing on his balcony, pleading for help, but the hotel did not have a way to rescue him.
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