Building collapse: Elderly man dies at Empress Market
The apartment was built atop the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation clock tower market.
KARACHI:
A man died when a portion of a dilapidated apartment fell on him at Empress Market on Tuesday.
DSP Zameer Abbasi said that the victim was identified as 60-year old Muhammad Hanif.
According to Abbasi, the apartment was built atop the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation clock tower market, adding that it was an illegal structure and not a part of the original architecture of the building.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 24th, 2013.
A man died when a portion of a dilapidated apartment fell on him at Empress Market on Tuesday.
DSP Zameer Abbasi said that the victim was identified as 60-year old Muhammad Hanif.
According to Abbasi, the apartment was built atop the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation clock tower market, adding that it was an illegal structure and not a part of the original architecture of the building.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 24th, 2013.