KARACHI: Intermittent rains continued lashing the city, while the death toll has reached 25 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. Talking to Geo News, he said that Sindh southern areas might receive more rains during the next 24 hours.
