Woman, boy injured in balcony collapse
A woman and a boy were injured as two balconies of a double-storey dilapidated building near Daryabad, Lyari caved in following heavy rain on Monday. According to area residents, first a balcony on the building’s second floor caved and under its impact, the one below it on the first floor also collapsed. The injured were shifted to Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital. Meanwhile, Chhipa workers rescued over two dozen people trapped inside the building after the incident. Aggrieved area locals said that none of the government officials or elected representatives had visited the site following the incident while numerous families were forced to stay under the open sky after vacating the building. However, some of its residents had shifted to their relatives’ houses, they said.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2020.