Death toll in Pakistan factory blazes rises to 85

A fireman tries to extinguish a fire which broke out in a factory on Tuesday, in Karachi, Pakistan. Factory fires in two of Pakistan's major cities killed 39 people and injured dozens more on Tuesday, including some who had to break through barred windows and leap to the ground to escape the flames. (AP/Shakil Adil)

A Pakistani hospital official says at least 60 people have been killed in a fire that raged in a garment factory in the southern city of Karachi, bringing the death toll in two deadly fires in the country to 85.

The head of the emergency department at the Civil Hospital in Karachi, Tariq Kamal Ayubi, said Wednesday morning that 60 bodies had been taken to the hospital. He said many were so badly burned that it was impossible to tell whether they were male or female.

The fire in Karachi, Pakistan's economic heart, was one of two deadly blazes to erupt in Pakistan late Tuesday. The other at a shoe factory in the eastern city of Lahore killed 25 people.