And it all falls down: Five inmates injured as ceiling collapses

Prison’s superintendent says that the contractors had not used good quality material.

At least five prisoners were injured when the ceiling of a cell in the newly constructed Shikarpur District Jail caved in. The injured inmates were taken to Civil Hospital, Shikarpur, one of them, Jumah Khan, was taken to Sukkur. The prison’s superintendent, Muhammad Usman said that the contractors had not used good quality material and the administration did not have enough money to fix the damage.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 17^th, 2012.