Two Labourers injured in Factory collapse incident in Karachi
A factory building located near Siemens Chowrangi in Karachi’s Sindh Industrial & Trading Estate (SITE) area collapsed on Monday and two labourers got injured. Several factory workers are feared trapped underneath the rubble however rescue operation is ongoing. The factory’s administration said that none of the workers is trapped under the debris as most of them were out for prayers and lunch at the time. Phew!
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah took notice of the incident and directed Karachi Commissioner Suhail Rajput to put the administration on alert. City Senior Superintendent of Police Muquddus Haider said that there were godowns on the ground floor and residential rooms in the second storey that were mostly occupied by labourers. “It appeared to be criminal negligence of the owners of both, the building and the plot, as well as that contractor that caused this tragedy and an FIR would be registered against them,” he had declared.
This is definitely not the first building collapse incident in Karachi in September. Earlier this month, at least two people were killed and 10 others were injured after a two-storey building collapsed in Bihar Colony in Karachi’s Lyari area. This was the third major multi-storey residential building to have collapsed in the last six months in Karachi. And now the factory incident! Click here to read about the Building collapse in Korangi Karachi happened on 10th September,2020.
Thank God this time most of the labourers were outside the building and only two labourers faced minimal injuries.
