Pakistani rescue workers load a dead body into an ambulance after recovering from a burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Pakistani officials said the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 128. Hospital official Tariq Kaleem says the fire at a garment factory in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed 103 people. A blaze at a shoe factory in the eastern city of Lahore killed 25 people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
Pakistani rescue workers load a dead body into an ambulance after recovering from a burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Pakistani officials said the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 128. Hospital official Tariq Kaleem says the fire at a garment factory in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed 103 people. A blaze at a shoe factory in the eastern city of Lahore killed 25 people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
People gather at the site of burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Pakistani officials say the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 128. Hospital official Tariq Kaleem said the fire at a garment factory in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed 103 people. A blaze at a shoe factory in the eastern city of Lahore killed 25 people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
A Pakistani weeps beside the ambulances parked at the site of burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Pakistani officials said the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 128. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
A Pakistani man comforts to another who weeps at the site of burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Pakistani officials say the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 128. Hospital official Tariq Kaleem said the fire at a garment factory in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed 103 people. A blaze at a shoe factory in the eastern city of Lahore killed 25 people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
A fireman tries to extinguish a fire which broke out in a factory on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in Karachi, Pakistan. Factory fires in two of Pakistan's major cities killed 39 people and injured dozens more on Tuesday, including some who had to break through barred windows and leap to the ground to escape the flames. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ? Pakistani officials say the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 271.
Senior government official Sagheer Ahmad said Wednesday that the fire at a garment factory in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed 246 people.
A blaze at a shoe factory in the eastern city of Lahore, which also broke out Tuesday night, killed 25 people.
Firefighter chief Ehtisham-ud-Din says most of the garment factory deaths were caused by suffocation as people caught in the basement were unable to escape.
Ahmad says the death toll is likely to rise because rescue workers are still pulling bodies from the site in Karachi.
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