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[email protected], Website: www.urckarachi.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/URCKHI Twitter: https://twitter.com/urc_karachi Five more workers burnt to death at Gadani Just a day after the death of a young man working at one of the ship-breaking yards in Gadani, five labourers burnt to death when a fire erupted inside a ship at another yard on Monday morning. All the five workers hailed from Swat. This time the incident occurred in yard no 60, which belongs to Deewan Rizwan Farooqui, chairman of the Pakistan Ship-Breaking Association. It was around 10am. The men had just taken a short break for tea being served to everyone inside the depths of the metal giant they were dismantling when the cork underlayment installed for insulation of the gas tanks suddenly caught fire, which grew out of control within seconds. Naimat Shah, Mohammad Sabir, Ali Jan, Mohammad Saeed and Saeed Khan were hired to pick up the scrap from the ship, a liquified petroleum gas (LPG) tanker, so that it didn‘t collect in the front or get in the way of other workers. ―The ship is an LPG tanker. It had plenty of cork and foam insulation between its tanks,‖ said Rahim Khan, who drives a forklift in the same yard. ―There were some 60 people working on the ship at the time.