Several dead as factory collapses in Pakistan

At least 20 people have been killed and over 75 others injured after a factory collapsed in the industrial area of Lahore, in Pakistan’s east.

Muhammad Usman, a local administrator, said about 150 workers, including the owner of the factory, were at the three-storey building at the time of collapse on Tuesday.

Rescue official Jam Sajjad Hussain said dozens of other labourers remain trapped under the rubble.

Hussain saind emergency teams are using heavy machinery to remove the bodies and look for survivors.

State-run Pakistan Television said the 10 bodies were retrieved from the rubble.

Army personnel have been deployed to the site of the factory to help in the rescue efforts, the military said.

Dozens of the workers’ families rushed to the scene of the incident to learn about the fate of their loved one.