A pair of fires in Lahore and Karachi claimed more than 300 lives on Tuesday, The New York Times reports. Both fires occurred at larges factories — a shoe factory in Lahore, and a garment factory in Karachi — and have highlighted concerns over lax safety measures in Pakistan’s urban infrastructure, the paper wrote.
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