Jam Sajjad

Soldiers and rescuers in Lahore were carefully cutting through steel and using cranes to lift the debris of the building in a bid to find people still alive, with survivors telling AFP that many of the workers had been children.

At least 13 people were killed today when a fire broke out in a multi-storey building in a busy market in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, officials said.

Soldiers and rescuers in Lahore were carefully cutting through steel and using cranes to lift the debris of the building in a bid to find people still alive, with survivors telling AFP that many of the workers had been children.

At least 13 people were killed today when a fire broke out in a multi-storey building in a busy market in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, officials said.