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Pakistan sentences 2 to death for deadly 2012 factory fire

| September 22, 2020 7:06 AM

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced two political party operatives to death for starting a fire at a garments factory in Karachi in 2012 that killed 260 people after the factory owners refused to pay bribes.

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