Lahore, Pakistan – Police say five people have plunged to their deaths trying to escape a burning government building in eastern Pakistan.
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Police officer Maruf Wahla says the death toll could rise, since firefighters have not been able to enter all areas of the nine-story building in the city of Lahore.
Local TV stations broadcast dramatic footage of people jumping from the Lahore Development Authority building Thursday as smoke poured from the windows. A crowd of horrified Pakistanis stood at the base of the building looking up.
Wahla says the fire started with a spark from a generator. Many buildings in Pakistan have their own generators because of frequent electricity outages.
VIN editors: Why do you post this? This is a graphic picture of poor souls plummeting to their deaths. Do we really need to see this? A little more respect for all human life or kavod ha mays in this case, is in order. It just should not be on here, period.
Hey Pakistan, Looks familiar eh?? What goes around comes around
If the comments above reacting to my earlier post are any indication, the frum oilam has even more issues than I thought. Rather than responding with any semblance of rationality or intellectual argument, they call names, they assume I’m not frum, etc. To say or imply that because most Pakistanis support the Palestinians over Israel they’re somehow irredeemably evil or that the Pakistanis who jumped to their death somehow had it coming, is just perverse. And the vast majority of Pakistanis had no idea where bin Laden was. On a personal note, I moved out of a chareidi community not because I became frei but rather because I couldn’t deal with the depressing ignorance, the deep hostility to anyone or anything different, the sheer hatred of non-Jews, the lack of any sense of civic responsibility or patriotism, the appalling frequency of unethical or illegal behavior and the attempts to downplay or even justify it — I could go on, but it’s an old story that’s never going to change as long as the smug, superior “what, me worry” attitude continues to pervade the community.
I couldn’t bring myself to feel sorry for these Jew-haters. Just like I wouldn’t sit shiva if I learned that a few communists or nazis were “tragically” killed.
Nu, its entirely possible that the people who jumped were completely innocent and were very good and kind people who met an unfortunate end. Its also just as possible that they were rabid Jew haters who applauded when 9/11 occurred and snickered when they saw pictures of Americans leaping from a much taller burning building. The Torah specifically tells us that when a nation’s leaders do evil, Hashem will revisit that evil upon both good and bad in that nation. While only Hashem knows for certain who these jumpers were, the fact that they did have to jump under the same circumstances as on 9/11 should give you a hint that perhaps this was a small measure of middah kineged middah, especially when you consider that Pakistan harbored Bin Laden, the man responsible for the deaths of the American jumpers, for years right under our noses. Like I said, only Hashem knows for sure.
Happens to be… these pictures are quite horrible, but Howard is still a douche (aka mamzer)…
Some day, when the truth comes out, it will be shown that President Obama could not have effected the killing of bin Laden without the collusion of the government of Pakistan. First of all, Pakistan is a Muslim country, not an Arab one. Secondly, bin Laden wanted to terrorize all Muslim countries that had diplomatic relations with the US, such as Pakistan. Thirdly, even Israel, which has been under attack for many years from Arabs in Gaza and southern Lebanon has made it a point not to fire rockets into civilian populations. The IDF drops leaflets over civilian areas to warn them to vacate their homes immediately so as to avoid oncoming attacks by Israeli planes. The message is, don’t hate the Muslims just because they are Muslims. We win over their hearts and minds by our kindness, not our hatred, by offering rescue teams after a tsunami or an earthquake. Will anyone dare to guess how many new friends Israel has made in Syria by dong nothing, and allowing Assad to do all the hating?
The photos are horrid. I would question why the editor of this site published them, but also the I wonder why the news agency put them on the wire. I can see no use for the public to see these things.