KARACHI (July 18, 2017)At least six people were killed and nine others suffered injuries when a three-story residential building collapsed in Liaquatabad area of the metropolis, in the early hours of Tuesday.
After receiving information rescue workers rushed to spot and pulled out the survivors and bodies from under the rubble and shifted them to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC). A woman and a 13-year-old boy were among the dead.
According to area residents, the building was in a derelict state and its third story had been illegally built a few months earlier.
A large number of rescue workers, police officials and Rangers personnel took part in the rescue operation and all machinery required for the rescue operation was present at the collapse site.
The mayor of Karachi Waseem Akhtar also visited the scene and hit out at the local building department for failing to enforce construction codes.
Safety codes are often ignored in Pakistan and in some of the poorer areas construction is haphazard and bribes are paid to inspectors to approve substandard construction.
At least 44 people were killed when a factory collapsed in the eastern city of Lahore in 2015, an accident also blamed on poor building standards.
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