At least three people died while 13 were wounded after three residential buildings collapsed on Thursday in the city’s Golimar area, police and rescue officials said.
Rescue sources informed that a woman was among the two dead, adding that the wounded were shifted to a nearby hospital.
Two children were also retrieved from the rubble, said rescue sources.
According to police, three buildings collapsed in the area, with one of them being completely destroyed, while major part of the other two buildings was razed to the ground.
Police said that the fourth building near the three collapsed buildings was also declared unsafe.
According to latest updates, army personnel and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s team also reached the site of incident to aid the rescue operations.
Rescue teams were dispatched to Golimar Number 2 after the building collapsed. The lower portion of the fallen building was already damaged and the entire building was said to be in dire need of restoration.
Abbasi Shaheed Hospital declared an emergency after it received the bodies and began treatment of the wounded from the incident.
Senior Director Health KMC Dr Salma Kosar said that 25 injured have been brought to the hospital so far.
She further said that six wounded have been shifted to the ICU.
