Death toll in Karachi building collapse jumps to 18

KARACHI: The death toll in Karachi’s Golimar building collapse incident jumped to 18 on Friday as more bodies were taken out under the debris.

According to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital’s medico-legal officers (MLOs) Dr Sohail Khan, 10 women three children and two men were among the dead in the building collapse incident.

He said that the deceased persons were identified as Yahya, Hyder, Maryam, Hira, Abdul Rasheed, Zubaida, Shela, Zubaida, Ghulam Mustafa, Khuram, Shahzad, an unidentified woman and others. According to rescue sources, at least 32 injured people were shifted to the hospital so far.

On Thursday, scores of people lost their lives and several others injured after a 25-year-old multi-story residential building had collapsed in Karachi’s Golimar area.

According to rescue sources, the three-story building situated at Karachi’s Golimar Number-2 had collapsed. As a result, initially, some people feared to be trapped under the debris of the building.

Rescue teams, rangers and police had reached the spot and started the relief operations to rescue those trapped under the rubble. Initially, four bodies had been taken out of debris so far, while several people were trapped. The rescue teams also have shifted the 24 injured to Abbasi Shaheed Hospitals.

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