Rain Water Enters Houses of Defence, Clifton in Karachi
'Pakistan Times' National News Desk

KARACHI: Due to recent rain in Karachi, roads in Defence and Clifton have submerged and water has entered the houses of these areas.

Rain water has inundated the areas of Defence, Phase IV, V, VI, Khayaban-e-Tauheed, Khayaban-e-Shamsheer and many areas of Bath Iseland. Due to this, the under-ground parking areas of the residential buildings have been filled by water.

The residents of the area spent the night awaking. They charged that despite paying heavy taxes, no department including the offices of the Defence Housing Authority responded to them and the condition of their area is just like of a Kacchi abadi.

An earlier report had said that intermittent rains continued lashing the city, while the death toll has reached 35 and the number of injured increased to 24 in various rain-related incidents such as electrocution and caved-in roofs besides the Karachi-Quetta traffic on the RCD Highway remain suspended due to heavy downpours.

According to the details, 25 persons including 7 women died of electrocution and collapsing roofs. 3 persons lost their lives, while the other 3 were wounded, when the roof of a house collapsed at Mauripur area, while the 2 died, when a broken electric wire hit a passing by rickshaw.

Among other rain-related incidents in the city, 15 persons including 2 women died here. The dead and the injured were shifted to the hospitals.

Markets and the shopping centers here remained shut due to continued rain spell, as the roads and the streets all across the city went submerged, while the people in the offices remained overnight stuck up until this morning and attendance in the offices were thin.

Traffics on the roads were few and far between as several feet of water remained standing on the roads.

Metrological Department told that the city in airport area till now received 124.2 mm of rains, North Karachi 130.8 mm, while at Faisal Base 98 mm.

Qamruzzaman Chaudhry of Met Department told that the existing monsoon system in Sindh would die down in next 12/18 hours. He said that Sindh southern areas might receive more rains during the next 24 hours.

7 of Family Killed

A latest report says that a family of seven members including husband, wife and five children were killed and two wounded when roof of their house caved-in in Korangi area of Karachi.

According to police sources, the incident occurred in Abdullah Shah Noorani Colony of Korangi 1 ½.

A doctor of Chinniot Hospital, Korangi said bodies of three people Ruqayya Bibi and two sons Shahbaz and Arsalan and an injured kid Saad were brought to the hospital.

Edhi Foundation sources said bodies of four persons Muhammad Yasin, his daughter Mahwish , son Irfan and Mansoor sent to Jinnah Hospital from where they later shifted to Edhi Home Sohrab Goth morgue.

So far, 35 people have been killed in rain related incidents in Karachi.●