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  • Justice for Dadu fire victims, demands Twitter

    Justice for Dadu fire victims, demands Twitter

    Nine children, a woman lost their lives and more than 20 other persons including women suffered severe burns after a fire broke out in three villages in Dadu district of Sindh Province on Monday night.

    Dadu Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Irfan Ali Samoo confirmed the deaths.

    The fire reportedly broke out in the kitchen of a small hut. More than 150 buffaloes, cows, goats and other animals also perished in the fire.

    According to the affected families, the blaze started around 9 pm on Monday and raged throughout the villages, over the next 12 hours. No fire tenders reached the village until it subsided at 8 am in the morning, they said. Moreover, they told that even the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Dadu and other officials had arrived after 12 hours

    The villagers later held a protest against the administration and urged the provincial government to take notice of the situation.

    Following the news, Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif said the federal government will take measures to provide relief to the victim families of the fire incident. 

    Due to devastating effect that the incident has left on people, social media users have strongly condemned it and questioned the incompetency of the concerned authorities.

    https://twitter.com/SaifSamejo/status/1516561598948659200?s=20&t=T1PFVBvdrZwfUzIpOmOZtA

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  • Get vaccinated, save your job: CNN fires unvaccinated employees

    American news channel CNN fired three employees for entering its New York headquarters without getting a Corona vaccination.

    CNN Cheif Jeff Zucker sent a memo to its employees saying that vaccination was necessary and no negligence would be tolerated.

    “All three have been terminated. Let me be clear — we have a zero-tolerance policy on this,” added the memo. “You need to be vaccinated to come to the office. And you need to be vaccinated to work in the field, with other employees, regardless of whether you enter an office or not. Period.”

    The United States (US) is one of the world’s most affected countries by the Covid-19 pandemic, with more than 30 million people infected and more than 600,000 dead.

    Vaccination is mandatory to control the virus worldwide. 

    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Burger King workers write ‘we all quit’ on signboard, quit jobs
    
			
    Burger King workers write ‘we all quit’ on signboard, quit jobs
    
			
    Employees and a general manager at a Burger King outlet in Nebraska, United States, quit their jobs amid worsening work conditions and used the restaurant’s sign to let customers know.
    

    “We all quit,” the sign at the Lincoln Burger King read. “Sorry for the inconvenience.”
    

    Rachael Flores, who had worked as a general manager there since January, had put in her two weeks notice and eight other employees also resigned before deciding to post the message on the sign, KLKN reported.
    

    

    


    

    

    

    “They have gone through so many district managers since I’ve been GM,” Flores said. “No one has come to the store to help me out. They’re so in and out.”
    

    Flores said the restaurant is short-staffed and she would end up working 50 to 60 hours a week. She said at one point they did not have working air-conditioning in the kitchen, where temperatures reached 90 degrees. Flores had to go to the hospital as she was dehydrated.
    

    Employees had joked on Friday about putting up the message. On Saturday, they put it up on one side of the sign.
    

    Read More: Restaurant makes ‘world’s most expensive burger’ for $6,000
    

    “They wanted to put up a sign to say, you know sorry there’s really not going to be anyone here,” Flores said.
    

     “Just kind of a laugh to upper management. That was put up (Saturday) before we opened, and I didn’t think anybody was going to notice it, because we did just one sign, and then it went pretty crazy on Facebook. I got a call from my upper management and they told me I needed to take it down.”
    

    Flores’ boss fired her later that day and the location is still open. Burger King did not responed to the incident.
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    VIDEO: Men climb up pipe to save kids from fire
    
			
    VIDEO: Men climb up pipe to save kids from fire
    
			
    Three men in Russia climbed up a drainpipe outside a three-storey building to save two children after they got stuck inside a burning apartment.
    

    The video that did rounds on social media shows a man climbing a drainpipe outside a building while a child is trying to escape through a window on the third floor.
    

    Two other men climed up the pipe to form a chain and joined the rescue efforts.
    

    The video recorded by the residents across the street showed the man around 30 metres above the ground holds the child with one hand while holding on to the drainpipe with the other.
    

    Once he gets hold of the child, he passes him to the other man right below him clinging to the pipe. The second person then passes the child to the third and then a woman on the ground hold the child.
    

    

    

    

    

    

     Later, fire extinguishers arrived and drenched the fire. The men who saved the children have been nominated for bravery awards for their heroic efforts.
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    VIDEO: Car catches fire after driver uses hand sanitizer while smoking
    
			
    A car burst into flames in Maryland after a driver used hand sanitizer while smoking a cigarette.
    

    According to officials, the fire was caused by the “driver using hand sanitizer and smoking a cigarette,” which he cites as a “bad combo in an unventilated area like a car.” 
    

    

    

    

    

    

    Read more – Woman ‘destroys’ $26m lottery ticket in laundry
    

    The car is badly damaged and cannot be recovered, Fire control officials took the driver to a nearby hospital for treatment of minor burns and injuries. 
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Gilgit: Viral video shows man removing Pakistani flag from burning car
    
			
    Gilgit: Viral video shows man removing Pakistani flag from burning car
    
			
    The video of a man in Gilgit removing a Pakistani flag from a burning car has gone viral on social media.
    

    The black car is believed to belong to a Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) minister and was set on fire during the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) protest against alleged rigging in the recently held elections.
    

    The video shows a man running towards the car and taking the flag off the bonnet.
    

    

    

    

    

    

    Widespread, even violent, protests are being held in the northern region against what the PPP has termed a “stolen” election on November 15.
    

    Videos from the area have shown people thronging the streets of and accusing Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of winning the maximum number of seats by rigging.
    

    Earlier, PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had alleged irregularities in the elections.
    

    

    


    

    

    

    “My election has been stolen. I will be joining the people of Gilgit-Baltistan in their protest shortly,” he had tweeted as early as initial results had started pouring in while Maryam Nawaz of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had accused the PTI of “pre-poll rigging”.
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Woman arrested for setting house on fire after father refused to finance TikTok video
    
			
    Police arrested a woman in Sukkur on Saturday for allegedly setting her house on fire after her father refused to pay for her TikTok video.
    

    As per reports, Marvi Khilji was arrested after her father, Abdul Aziz, registered a complaint at a police station that she had set fire to their house when refused to finance a modelling video for her TikTok account.
    

    Abdul Aziz who is a retired employee of the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), with Rs25,000 as pension claimed in his complaint that she had demanded for Rs200,000. When he refused, she got angry and set fire to the house that destroyed a fridge and a washing machine.
    

    Upon the father’s complaint, police arrested Khilji and the court then sent her to Sukkur jail for 14 days.
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Man accidentally burns down flat while proposing to girlfriend
    
			
    A man accidentally set fire to his flat after a romantic gesture he had planned to propose to his girlfriend went wrong.
    

    According to South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue, the man wanted to ask his partner in a room “filled with hundreds of tea lights”, balloons and a bottle of wine. But he left the candles burning while he went to pick her up from work. When he returned he found his flat burning in flames.
    

    He and his girlfriend thankfully managed to escape the fire unharmed.
    

    Three fire engines were sent to the home above a newsagent in Sheffield on Monday night.
    

    The fire service in a series of Tweets described the incident and wrote in one of the Tweets, “As a bonus, she said YES!
    

    

    


    

    

    

    

    


    

    

    

    

    


    

    

    

     
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Constable opens fire on jailed man for asking for a cigarette repeatedly
    
			
    A cop opened fire on a prisoner at a police station in Lahore after he repeatedly asked the officer for a cigarette.
    

    According to reports, the incident took place at Chuhang police station in Lahore, where Constable Waris wounded an imprisoned man, Zeeshan, who was taken into custody relating to electricity theft.
    

    “The constable opened fire after the inmate repeatedly asked for a cigarette from Waris, who was appointed at the security of a lockup at the police station,” they said.
    

    The injured was taken to a hospital for medical treatment as police arrested the cop for injuring a prisoner and registered a case against him.
    

    The police said that they would investigate the incident and determine if it was over mere refusing a cigarette or anything else.
    

    The doctors, who treated the injured accused, said that he was currently out of danger.
    

    
			
    
		
    
		
	
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    Railways CEO differs on Rasheed’s claim, says Tezgam fire broke out due to short circuit
    
			
    Railways CEO differs on Rasheed’s claim, says Tezgam fire broke out due to short circuit
    
			
    Pakistan Railways (PR) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Muhammad Leghari has differed on Federal Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad’s claim and said that the deadly Tezgam Express fire from last year broke due to a short circuit and the gas cylinder only exploded later on.
    

    As many as 73 passengers were killed, with 90 per cent of them burnt alive, and over 40 others injured when three coaches of the Rawalpindi-bound train caught fire near Liaquatpur in October 2019. The incident was called one of the most horrifying tragedies in PR’s history.
    

    According to the ministry, the fire was caused by a cylinder blast that occurred when passengers were preparing breakfast for themselves in a moving train, a claim heavily disputed by eye-witnesses. People had widely demanded Rasheed’s resignation while the minister himself had suspended a couple of officers on account of criminal negligence and letting passengers carry gas cylinders on the ill-fated train.
    

    With Rasheed making headlines as Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed observed that the minister should have resigned after the tragedy, and said that shutting down PR would be better than keeping it running under Rasheed, PR CEO Leghari’s claims have raised eyebrows over the government’s side of the story.
    

    Speaking to a private media outlet, Leghari said that the fire broke out when an electric kettle in a dining car of the train, malfunctioned. “It was an illegal power connection from another coach,” he said, adding that the fire engulfed the entire coach, which led to the cylinder explosion.