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First Monsoon spell claims lives of 6 karachiites

KARACHI: By and large, in the heart of their hearts, Karachiites do not want rain to lash the Port City.

Rain in this Metropolis, deprived of basic infrastructure (due to theft of public funds by its custodians), means death,  injuries, outages in scorching summer, maladies and other miseries.

According to details wall of a house fell on its three-year-old (girl) inhabitant killing her. Another falling wall claimed life of a 70-year-old woman. Two men died when roof of their house fell on them. .

Two more minors lost their lives as a wall fell on them. Another four got injured due to similar accident, two of them later expired.

KE, that is adding to the suffering masses’ agony by means of inflated bills and outages, promoted to take to the Twitter to inform about safety measures: “Heavy rains and windy conditions expected from today in Karachi and surrounding areas. Please keep children indoors and ensure safety measures…”

Many others got injured due to falling tiles from building facades, trees and transformers.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.