Karachi building collapse death toll reaches 10

Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 4:43 pm

KARACHI-Pakistan: At least 10 persons have died while 17 others injured as four-storey building collapsed in the Buldia Town locality here in Karachi on Sunday. Search is on for the missing persons.

Fire brigade, CDGK and other civic organizations are busy in rescue work, which will continue till afternoon today. The authorities had called for heavy machinery for excavation.

Plenty of Chhipa and Edhi welfare ambulances have reached on the spot along with several volunteer local men whereas the rescue work has gone underway.

Rescue workers had dug out a poor dead body and six others injured out of them two succumbed to wounds on the way to hospital. Plenty are feared dead.

According to hospital sources the tragedy killed six including twenty-year-Shan, fifteen-year-Behram, two-year-Haris, twenty-year-Subhana and seventeen-year-Mahgul.

The wounded include Zahid Ullah, Sawab Gul, Gul Zaib, Shafique, Tehseen, Shehnaz Begam, Sarfaraz, Saif Ullah, Qadir and other.