{"id":29966,"date":"2016-11-02T07:38:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T07:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/deaths-in-ship-demolition-accident-in-pakistan-s\/"},"modified":"2016-11-02T07:38:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T07:38:43","slug":"deaths-in-ship-demolition-accident-in-pakistan-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/deaths-in-ship-demolition-accident-in-pakistan-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaths in ship-demolition accident in Pakistan&#8217;s Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Explosions blamed for fire that trapped scores of workers in dismantled oil tanker in ship-breaking yard in Balochistan.}<\/p>\n<p>The death toll in a fire at a ship demolition yard in southern Pakistan has risen to 18, after more bodies were retrieved overnight, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 labourers with burn injuries were being treated at hospitals after an explosion caused the fire on a ship in the Ghadani Ship Breaking Yard in the town of Hub, Jahffar Khan, local police chief, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the fire, which broke out at 10am local time (05:00 GMT) on Tuesday, was so intense that dozens of firefighters are still trying to put it out.<\/p>\n<p>The casualty figure is expected to rise, Khan said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started in a dismantled oil tanker that was stationed in the yard, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Several explosions occurred inside the oil tanker while the workers were performing gas-welding work.<\/p>\n<p>Ghadani, in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, is the country&#8217;s largest centre for ship demolition.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of labourers work in the Pakistani ship-breaking industry under poor conditions and with low safety standards.<\/p>\n<p>They are often the victim of deadly accidents.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghadani ship-breaking industry has fallen on hard times recently and employs about 9,000 workers, fewer than in its boom years at the end of the last decade.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16130 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/63329f1b11304194ae63e9cb20838fb8_18.jpg\" alt=\"The fire started in a dismantled oil tanker that was stationed in the yard \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Explosions blamed for fire that trapped scores of workers in dismantled oil tanker in ship-breaking yard in Balochistan.} The death toll in a fire at a ship demolition yard in southern Pakistan has risen to 18, after more bodies were retrieved overnight, according to officials. More than 50 labourers with burn injuries were being treated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29966"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29966"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}