At least 11 people have been killed and 22 injured in a fire at a shopping mall in Pakistan’s commercial capital of Karachi on Saturday morning.

The multi-story RJ Mall is in a commercial high-rise that also houses call centres and software firms. The fire department dispatched eight fire trucks to the scene after being alerted at 6:30 am on Saturday and Chief fire officer, Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan, said the fourth floor of the building was the most affected.

Karachi Mayor, Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the fire had been extinguished and a cooling process was underway and the cause of the fire was not immediately clear.

Karachi is the capital of southern Sindh province, where such incidents are common. Earlier this year in April, a fire tore through a garment factory killing four firefighters. The flames ripped through the building, eventually causing it to collapse.