Pakistan Dasu Dam Fire
Pakistan: Fire rips through Chinese camps at Dasu Dam, no casualty
Peshawar: A fire broke out at a camp of a Chinese company managing the construction of a remote hydropower dam in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday, media reports said.
Beijing has reportedly invested billions of dollars into Pakistan under an investment scheme known as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) since 2015.
Police said the fire ruined a warehouse complex for the Dasu hydropower project in the Kohistan district.
Rescue 1122 fire tenders and fighters from Upper Kohistan and Lower Kohistan rushed to the spot and started extinguishing the flames.
“The enraged flames engulfed the entire area and gutted camps and warehouses,” Khaliq Dad, the district emergency officer of Rescue 1122, Upper Kohistan, told Dawn News.
According to reports, the Chinese engineers and workers were shifted to a nearby place.
No casualty was reported in the incident.
“We have launched an inquiry into the incident and it would be completed in three days as it is part of our standard operational procedures,” Anwarul Haq, Dasu Dam’s General Manager, told reporters as quoted by Dawn News.
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