Accident: Shipyard workers’ bodies reach K-P

SHERGARH: The bodies of three labourers who were killed while working in the Gadani ship-breaking yard on the Balochistan coast on Friday were received by their relatives in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). A large piece of scrap metal fell on the  working labourers killing three instantly. Fires and accidents are known to be common in the ship-breaking yard, where workers extract metals, steel pipes, electricity cables, machinery and wood from derelict ships.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 23^rd, 2012.