At least 11 people, including three women, were suffocated to death and 75 others injured on Monday when a pre-dawn fire ripped through a four-star hotel in Karachi, the fourth blaze to hit Pakistan's largest city in the last two weeks. Police Senior Superintendent Saqib Memon said the cause of the fire in the Regent Plaza Hotel was not clear and an investigation had been launched. Dr Seemi Jamali, who heads the Emergency Room at Jinnah Hospital, close to the hotel, said the deaths had been caused by suffocation and all injuries were linked to respiratory problems. Video footage showed some hotel guests using a chain of bed sheets to climb down from windows of top floors as smoke filled the hotel

Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar told reporters the cause of the fire was not clear.
At least 12 people are killed and 75 others injured as a fire erupts in Karachi's Regent Plaza Hotel.