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Death toll rises to 16 in Pakistan building collapse as rescuers search for survivors
- A five-storey apartment building collapsed in Karachi's Lyari neighbourhood on Friday morning, killing 27 people.
- Authorities had declared the building unsafe and issued eviction notices between 2022 and 2024, but some residents reported no notices.
- Rescue teams worked through the weekend, using heavy machinery to find survivors, while relatives prayed amid reports of cracking sounds before collapse.
- Dev Raj, a 54-year-old father, told AFP on Saturday that his daughter was trapped beneath the debris and anticipated that the rescue efforts would conclude by the afternoon.
- The collapse highlights common safety failures in Karachi, where poor construction and lax regulation frequently cause building failures amid overcrowding.
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Rescue Effort Ends With 27 Killed in Building Collapse
The death toll from a collapsed multistory residential building in Pakistan's Karachi city rose to 27 on Sunday as a three-day rescue operation ended, officials said. Rescuers pulled 11 more bodies from the rubble of the building that collapsed on Friday, according to Dr. Summayya Tariq, the Karachi police surgeon....
Pakistan Building Collapse Death Count Jumps To 27
The death count in the building collapse in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi has jumped to 27 as rescuers retrieved more bodies, a spokesperson of the state-owned rescue organization Rescue 1122 said on Sunday.
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Rescue workers have recovered 27 bodies from a collapsed apartment building in the Pakistani city of Karachi. The five-storey building collapsed on Friday in the poor Lyari neighbourhood. Most of the rubble has now been cleared, rescuers say.
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