KARACHI: The death toll from the devastation caused by yesterday’s record-breaking monsoon rain in the port city has jumped to eighteen, according to police and rescue sources.
Women and children are among the deceased as several other people also got injured in rain-related incidents in the metropolis.
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The police said at least seven people, four children and three women among them, were killed when a wall collapsed on them in Saima Square in Gulistan-e-Jauhar. In a similar incident, a person was killed in Ferozabad neighbourhood when a wall came down on him.
They said two people drowned in the Korangi River and Gadap after the torrential downpour triggered massive flooding in many parts of the city, rising the water level in stormwater drains. A person died of electrocution in Sukhan.
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The police said a person drowned in Shah Faisal Colony while a disabled woman died from drowning when rainwater accumulated in her home. Besides, a woman died after a wall collapsed in the city’s Ibrahim Hyderi locality.
A person drowned in Saad Colony while a wall collapse killed a person within the remits of Nabi Buksh police station.
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