KARACHI, July 8: At least 15 persons died in separate rain related incidents in different parts of the city since late Monday night.

Eight members of a family, including a nine-month-old boy, were buried alive when a boulder fell on huts in Gulistan-i- Jauhar early Tuesday morning.

The incident occurred after Monday’s heavy rain.

The dead were identified as Karim Bakhsh, 55, his wife Rabia Bibi, her brother Mukthar, Nazia, 11, Sami, 6, Tanvir, 5, Misbah, 2, and a nine-month-old boy, Adnan.

The fire brigade and the police were informed about the incident and heavy equipment had to be brought for the recovery of bodies trapped in the debris.

An outer wall of bungalow NoB-47, was also damaged in the mudslide.

Local residents said similar incident could recur because of mismanaged land reclamation in the area.

The family hailed from Rahimyarkhan.

In another incident, in Malir town, two minors died after being swept away by onrushing rain water late Monday night.

Police said that bodies of two-month-old Rabia and Madhia, 5, were later found in the bushes by fire brigade officials.

A fire department spokesman said that two minor girls were also swept away by rain water in a storm drain in Gulistan-i-Jauhar late Monday night.

He said that the body of Sadia, 4, had been retrieved from the drain near a factory on Wali Mohammad Road on Tuesday morning while the body of the other girl, whose name could not be ascertained, had not been found till the filing of this report.

Body of a fruit-seller, Abdul Latif, was recovered on Tuesday.

He had gotten stuck in a stormwater drain in Surjani Town along with several others, was recovered on Tuesday.

Police said several persons had been rescued late Monday night after their vehicles had gotten stuck in the flooded drain.

A 30-year-old security guard of a private security agency, Rahimullah, was electrocuted by a fallen high-tension wire on Tuesday morning as he was returning home from work, police said.

The body of an unidentified man, in his mid-40s, was brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors said that he had died of electrocution.

IDENTIFIED: A man and a woman, who had died in a road traffic accident in Quaidabad on Monday night, were identified as Mian Nisar Paganwala, 60, and Saba Rizwan, 42.