The building was already evacuated by the local police.
Building collapses in Karachi. A five-storey old building collapsed in Karachi’s Musa Colony on Monday.
The building was already evacuated by the local police and no fatalities have been reported in the incident.
The rescue teams were present on the site to fight any kind of mishap.
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Similar incidents have also occurred in the city in past. In March 2020, at least 13 people died and dozens others sustained injuries when a five-storey residential building in Rizvia Society collapsed.
While a man was killed when a multi-storey dilapidated building collapsed in old city area of Lyari, police and rescuers said.
They added that Mohammad Shahid, 42, died when an empty five-storey building collapsed near Haji Karam Sheermal in the Nayabad area of Lyari.
Kalri SHO Majid Ali Alvi said that Shahid was a rickshaw driver by profession. He was standing near the building as per his routine to pick up passengers when the building collapsed on his rickshaw. He came under the debris.
The police, rescue services and the district administration rushed to the spot, recovered the man from the debris and shifted him to the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
The SHO said that the building had already been declared as dangerous by the Sindh Building Control Authority and the authorities had got it vacated.
The officer said if the victim’s relatives approached the police for initiating any legal proceedings about the death, the investigators may look into it.
Meanwhile, Chief Secretary Dr Mohammed Sohail Rajput took notice of the incident and directed authorities concerned to submit a report.
