25 electrocuted in three days

KARACHI: Two more people were electrocuted on Wednesday due to the ill-maintained electricity system in the provincial capital. The total death tally reached to 25 persons in the last three days.

22-year old Mohammad Bux, son of Soomar, was electrocuted in Marvi Goth in the limits of Shah Latif Town while another youth, Sirajuddin son of Shahabdin, 25, was electrocuted and died in Mominabad in the jurisdiction of Qaidabad police station on Wednesday morning. Bodies were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

On Tuesday, two 13-year old boys identified as Syed Amir Abir Ali and Ahmed Hamza were electrocuted in a street of North Nazimabad. In another incident, 11-year-old Muhammad Araf and 9-year old Muhammad Umar were also electrocuted in Malir's Muslimabad colony.

The grieved families of Abir Ali held the power supplying company and the government responsible for the incident. Deceased's grandmother, Rakhshi Zaki, blamed that the boy lost his life due to the negligence of the K-Electric (KE). "They don't respond to our complaints," she said, adding complaints of broken wires were not addressed immediately.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 1^st, 2019.