KARACHI: The death toll from rain-related accidents in different areas of the city has risen to 28 while over a hundred people have also been injured following Saturday’s thunder-shower.
By late Saturday night at least 15 rain-related fatalities had been reported in different parts of the city while at least 13 more people were killed in different rain-related incidents in the city on Sunday.
Four members of a family died when part of the roof of an adjacent multi-storey building collapsed and landed over their small house in the Garden police limits on Sunday. Police and Edhi sources said that the incident occurred apparently due to heavy rain that lashed the city on Saturday and in the early hours of Sunday.
Garden DSP Aijaz Hashmi said that the incident occurred when a small portion of the roof of the six-storey Haji Shah Lal building collapsed and fell on a 40-square-yard house in Shoe Market, Garden. The roof of the small house was made up of tin sheets. The family was asleep when the roof caved in.
Police and Edhi rescue workers reached the scene and recovered the injured from the rubble.
The DSP said the family members were rescued from the rubble alive but four of them died at the Civil Hospital. The victims were identified as Badruddin, 42, Rani, 40, the husband and wife respectively, and their two children, Mohsin, eight and Rupaita, 7.
However, a 10-year-old son of the couple survived and was presently under treatment at the hospital, he added.
He said the owner of the adjacent building, Sohail Marwari, was arrested and an FIR (98/2009) was registered against him under Sections 337 and 322 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Four drowned
The body of a six-year-old child was fished out from the Lyari River near the Bandhani bridge in the remit of the Sharifabad police station.
Police said that the boy was identified as Javed Umar, a resident of Lasi Goth, and his body was fished out by the area people and rescue workers.
In a similar incident, Edhi sources said, the body of an eight-year-old girl was fished out from the Lyari River near Muhammadi Colony, Mauripur.
As the girl remained unidentified, the body was shifted to the Edhi morgue for want of identification.
Meanwhile, two young men drowned in a storm-water drain in the Qayyumabad area on Sunday.
Edhi sources said that the body of one of the victims, Majeed, 19, was fished out from the drain but the second victim, identified as 17-year-old Abid, could not be recovered. The police said that both the victims were residents of Akhtar Colony.
Two brothers die
Two brothers died when the wall of their Moosa Colony house fell on them. The incident occurred in the limits of the Gulberg police station. The police said that the wall was constructed without any proper support, hence it collapsed in the aftermath of the rain.
The two brothers were identified as Usman and Salman. The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for completion of legal formalities.
Three electrocuted
Three men, including an employee of the Karachi Electric Supply Company, were electrocuted in different parts of the city on Sunday.
Edhi sources said that an incident occurred in Shanti Nagar, Baldia Town, where a live electric wire snapped and fell on 25-year-old Mustaqeem, who died on the spot. The body was sent to the Civil Hospital for legal formalities.
A KESC employee, Qalandar Bux, was electrocuted when he was attending an electricity-related complaint in Lyari. The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for legal formalities.
In Korangi, 40-year-old Noor Mohammad was killed when a live electricity wire snapped and fell on him. He died instantly. The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for legal formalities.
Trussed up body found
The body of a man was found near a storm-water drain in the Garden police limits on Sunday.
Police said that the trussed up body bore torture marks and was recovered near the drain when the rainwater receded. The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
Police said that the victim was identified as Abdul Samad Rind, who had been missing for some days and a report regarding his disappearance was lodged at the Chakiwara police station on July 16.
The police attributed the killing to some criminal rivalry. A SIM card was recovered from the deceased, which led to his identification.
Bridge swept away
A small bridge linking Gulistan-i-Jauhar with the airport area was washed away in the rain.
Eyewitnesses said that the small bridge – which provides a shortcut to commuters and has been constructed over a storm-water drain – was washed away on Sunday.
The area police said that vehicular traffic was suspended and there was no passage left for pedestrian movement. [Source: Dawn News]
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