Summary Two persons were reportedly injured in the incident.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The fire that was doused at Islamabad’s Awami Markaz Software Technology Park on Sunday by ten fire tenders after two hours of rescue operation has once erupted and engulfed the fourth and fifth floors completely.
According to details, the incident took place in Red Zone area near Parliament and President House, and the blaze broke out in Federal Tax Ombudsman office at 07:30 AM. The tax record is damaged due to the incident. The glasses of different floors have also been broken to ventilate smoke out of the building.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) centre of excellence was also in the same building, and has burnt down along with its computers and important documents. The centre was built to keep the experts of both countries in contact with each other, and was inaugurated a year ago.
Five floors of the building have been affected by the fire. Two persons were reportedly injured as they jumped off the fourth floor to save their lives, and one person was found unconscious on the same floor. All the injured were rushed to the hospital where two of them could not survive, and third is in critical condition in burn unit.
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