Many low-lying areas in Karachi were inundated by downpour on Sunday while four people were killed and many others suffered injuries. The second spell of torrential monsoon rains wreaked havoc in Karachi, flooding residential and commercial areas, damaging properties and disrupting the power and telecommunication system.
On Monday, the Sindh government announced holiday due to heavy rains and flooding of commercial and residential areas in the city.
In the torrential rains, a teenage boy, identified as Zia, was electrocuted in the Liaquatabad area. He was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. The family said he received an electric shock from a service mast.
A man, who is yet to be identified, died of electrocution in Surjani Town. Police said the deceased received an electric shock from the snapped electricity wires. His body was taken to the who is yet to be identified, died of electrocution.
Police said the deceased received an electric shock from the snapped electricity wires. His body was taken to the morgue after completion of medico legal formalities at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
A couple and their two minor children were wounded after a wall of their house collapsed on them in Baldia Town within the limits of Saeedabad police station.
Police and rescuers reached the property took the family to the Civil Hospital, Karachi. They were later identified as 35-year-old Nadeem, his wife Pathani, two year-old-son Krishna and daughter Samina, 5.
