KARACHI: Rescuers on Saturday pulled a man alive from the debris of a residential building that had collapsed three days ago in Golimar area of the metropolis.
During rescues operation, a man identified as Ramzan found alive and was pulled out from the rubble of the building. The man was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for the first aid, there are more people feared to be trapped under the rubble as the rescue work is happening on the third day of the incident.
Rescue workers said they heard voices of women asking for help throughout last night, however still unable to trace the woman. Officials said the rescue operation is underway to search another seven people missing after the building collapsed.
Police, rangers and Navy personnel also deployed to help in the search efforts after a five-story building and two adjoining houses collapsed. It is mention here, the death toll in Karachi’s Golimar building collapse incident jumped to 18 on Friday as more bodies were taken out under the debris.
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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 told 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.
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On Thursday, scores of people had lost their lives and several others injured after a 25-year-old multi-story residential building had collapsed in Karachi’s Golimar area.
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