Photos: Deadly fire at government building in eastern Pakistan
May 9, 2013
A Pakistani army helicopter rescues a man from a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013. At least three persons fell from the 13-story LDA plaza situated on Lahore’s Edgerton road 9 trying to avoid a fire that engulfed the building. AFP PHOTO/ Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images ( 519589239 )
A Pakistani man moments before jumping from the fifth floor of a building that caught on fire in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, May 9, 2013. The 13-story government building caught fire and quickly intensified spreading to three floors of the tall building. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) ( Pakistan Building Fire )
Pakistanis pray for people stranded in a building that caught on fire, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) ( Pakistan Building Fire )
A Pakistani man climbs a rope to the roof top of a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ Arif ALIArif Ali/AFP/Getty Images ( 519588823 )
Rescue workers attempt to extinguish a fire and to rescue peope trapped in the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Plaza on May 09, 2013 in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) ( 168388495 )
A policeman watches as rescue workers attempt to reach people trapped as a fire takes hold at the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Plaza on May 09, 2013 in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) ( 168388583 )
Rescue workers try to rescue a man trapped on the top floor as a fire burns at the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Plaza on May 09, 2013 in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) ( 168387753 )
A Pakistani man climbs a rope to the roof top of a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ Arif ALIArif Ali/AFP/Getty Images ( 519588802 )
A man suffering from smoke inhalation is rushed away after being rescued from a building as a fire still burns at the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Plaza on May 09, 2013 in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) ( 168387766 )
A Pakistani army helicopter rescues a man from a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images ( 519588723 )
People pray as they watch a man perched on a window ledge minutes before he was overcome by smoke and fell as a fire burns at the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Plaza on May 09, 2013 in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) ( 168387857 )
A man watches as workers attempt to rescue a man trapped on the top floor as a fire burns at the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Plaza on May 09, 2013 in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) ( 168388436 )
A man is saved by a helicopter from the roof of a burning building in central Lahore May 9, 2013. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj ( PAKISTAN/ )
A man is saved by a helicopter from the roof of a burning building in central Lahore May 9, 2013. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj ( PAKISTAN/ )
Rescue workers try to save people trapped inside a burning building in central Lahore May 9, 2013. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj ( PAKISTAN/ )
A man (C) saved from a burning building in central Lahore is comforted by bystanders May 9, 2013. Fire erupted on the seventh floor of the LDA plaza in Lahore and quickly spread to higher floors leaving many people trapped inside the building. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj ( PAKISTAN/ )
A Pakistani army helicopter rescues a man from a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images ( 519588584 )
A Pakistani army helicopter rescues a man from a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images ( 519588756 )
Pakistani pedestrians wait for a rescue in a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ Arif ALIArif Ali/AFP/Getty Images ( 519588782 )
A Pakistani firefighter gives water to a man who was stuck in a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ Arif ALIArif Ali/AFP/Getty Images ( 519588896 )
A Pakistani army helicopter rescues a man from a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images ( 519589270 )
A Pakistani army helicopter rescues people from a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ Arif ALIArif Ali/AFP/Getty Images ( 519589230 )
A survivor lies on a stretcher after being pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. Rescue workers in Bangladesh freed the woman buried for 17 days inside the wreckage of a garment factory building that collapsed, killing more than 1,000 people. Soldiers at the site said her name was Reshma and described her as being in remarkably good shape despite her ordeal. (AP Photo) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
A survivor lies on a stretcher after being pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
Survivor Reshma Begum lies on a stretcher after being pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. Begum was working in a factory on the second floor of Rana Plaza when the building began collapsing around her April 24. She raced down a stairwell into the basement, where she became trapped near a Muslim prayer room in a wide pocket that allowed her to survive, she told the private Somoy TV. (AP Photo) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
Rescuers carry a survivor pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
The feet of survivor Reshma Begum is seen after she was rescued from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
A survivor lies on a stretcher after being pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
Rescuers carry a survivor pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
Rescuers carry survivor Reshma Begum from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahul Talukder) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
Relatives gather as the rescue worker unload dead bodies after a building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on May 10, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ Munir uz ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images ( 519612001 )
Bangladeshi rescuers retrieve garment worker Reshma from the rubble of a collapsed building in Savar on May 10, 2013, seventeen days after the eight-story building collapsed. AFP PHOTO/STRSTRDEL/AFP/Getty Images ( 519613463 )
Survivor Reshma Begum lies on a stretcher after being pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
Bangladeshi rescuers retrieve garment worker Reshma from the rubble of a collapsed building in Savar on May 10, 2013, seventeen days after an eight-story building collapsed. AFP PHOTO/STRSTRDEL/AFP/Getty Images ( 519614887 )
Bangladeshi rescuers retrieve garment worker Reshma from the rubble of a collapsed building in Savar on May 10, 2013, seventeen days after an eight-story building collapsed. AFP PHOTO/STRSTRDEL/AFP/Getty Images ( 519615176 )
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