Two women were killed and three others injured Thursday after the roof of a six -story residential building collapsed near the Khadda market in Lyari in Karachi, officials said.
According to rescue authorities, the sixth floor of the Ghani Mansion building, located near the Bilal Masjid and Peshawari hotel, gave up and fell on the fifth floor, which in turn collapsed on the fourth.
The 1122 rescue teams, as well as other emergency services, rushed to the site and launched help efforts. The police also completed the region and helped coordinate the rescue operations, which are still underway.
Dig South Syed Asad Raza confirmed that two women died in the incident, and three other people who would have been their daughters were injured. The deceased was transferred to the Karachi civil hospital.
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One of the victims was identified as Hurmat Rafiq, 45, according to a spokesperson for the EDHI Foundation. The identity of the second woman has not yet been confirmed.
The five victims were building residents. The officials said that the injured received medical treatment and that their conditions were monitored.
The authorities study the cause of collapse and evaluate structural damage to the surroundings.
A similar tragedy took place earlier this month in the Lyari Baghdadi region, when a five-story residential building collapsed. Rescue operations lasted almost 50 hours.
The Karachi civil hospital confirmed 27 deaths and 10 injuries, including 11 women, 16 men and a little girl aged one and a half. The incident has raised new concerns about the security and application of regulations in Karachi older neighborhoods.
The Sindh government later ordered a new investigation on the province’s scale on all dangerous buildings, citing complaints that some had been wrongly declared.
The district committees have already been created and will include technical experts from Abad, PEC and the Council of Architects and Urbanists.
A meeting chaired by Ghani examined 588 dilapidated buildings in Karachi, 59 of which were deemed extremely dangerous. Karachi authorities said 29 of them had been canceled. The list was then updated with more than 70 other dangerous buildings.
