More deaths: Seven more die in rains

Roof collapse injures five people, while KESC shuts off electricity to Burns Road after man dies of electrocution.


Express September 13, 2011

KARACHI:


Seven people died in rain accidents on Tuesday.


Two brothers, Ilyas and Gul Din, died in Wahid Colony, North Nazimabad. Near Kati Pahari, Roshan Khan, Bilquis Bibi died and Faraz was injured, and five others were injured in Rasheedabad, when the roofs of their houses collapsed.

A shopkeeper, Mohammad Zahid, was electrocuted near Burns Road. Later, the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) stopped the supply to the area.

In Ghas Mandi, a man identified as Liaquat was electrocuted.

An employee of KESC, Syed Sabir Hussain Shah, died and his wife and son were injured when their motorcycle slipped near the Northern Bypass.

The body of a 14-year-old boy was found from a pothole near Patel Para.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 14th,  2011.

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