Cinema worker killed

Published October 10, 2014

MIRPURKHAS: A 30-year-old man was killed and six other persons were injured, two of them seriously, when the huge metal and concrete structure of a cinema plunged onto an adjacent restaurant with a big bang on Thursday evening.

Many people were trapped under the debris of the structure and the restaurant’s crashed site.

Area people retrieved the body of Mohammed Imran, an employee of Firdous Cinema, from under the rubble.

Two other persons, Nisar, 55, and Sikandar, 22, were seriously injured and were rushed to the Mirpurkhas Civil Hospital along with four other injured victims.

Published in Dawn, October 10th, 2014

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