Five sisters and a nearby relative were killed on Saturday night when the roof of his house collapsed during construction work at the Afghan camp of Karachi near Jinjal Goth, Gulshan-E-Maymar, authorities said Sunday.
Four others, including two minor children, were also injured. It was said that the condition of an injured man was critical.
The officials blamed the probable cause of the ceiling collapse in a heavy load of construction material that is placed in the house in ruins.
The Officer of the Gulan-E-Maymar Station Station (Sho) Agha Asadullah said: “The roof of the house collapsed in a house in the Afghan camp, and as a result, 10 family members were under their rubble.”
Sho Asadullah said rescue efforts were launched, but four children died in the place, while two young women were declared dead in the hospital.
The police surgeon, Dr. Sumaiya Syed said that five women of seven, eight, 10, 14 and 20 were brought from the jurisdiction of Gulshan-i-Maymar. All were dead upon arrival.
“Family members rejected a post mortem exam. There were multiple injuries in all their bodies. Medicolegal certificates were issued, ”said the police surgeon.
Sho Asadullah said the one -plane’s house seemed to be old and in ruins conditions. He added that Reti-Bajri And other materials were being used to repair their roof, which could not bear the load and fell on the members of the family sleeping at home.
He pointed out that although the incident occurred in the Afghan field, the victims were not Afghan refugees. Originally they came from Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A neighbor, Matiullah, told him Dawn.com That when you were going to work in New Subzi Mandi at the time of Iftaar, a heavy construction material was placed on the roof.
He said he warned the family of dangers as it was a Katcha House (mud), but construction workers laughed at it. Matiullah said he received information about the incident at 8:30 pm and hastened to join a rescue job initiated by the residents themselves.
Rescue 1122 Officer Hassaan Khan said Dawn.com that they had received information about the incident at 11 PM, but added that by the time they arrived at the place, the bodies had already been transferred to the hospitals.
He said that the roof was built with ’tile material’ and that residents told rescue workers that their pieces had been falling.
The injured were identified as Mikail, 40; Nasira, 37; Noman, 3; And Asif, 7. The police said that Mikail’s condition was critical.
The officer said that, since this was an accident, no legal procedures had been taken.
Saad Edhi said the coffins of all the deceased girls had been transferred to the Morgue of Edhi, but until Sunday night, the relatives had not arrived to take the bodies for the burial.
