KARACHI: Two labourers died after a fall from the 12th floor of an under-construction building on Sharea Faisal as the makeshift construction lift buckled on Wednesday, police and rescuers said.

Ferozabad SHO Meraj Anwar said that the construction work was going on at the 12th floor of the building near Lal Kothi.

He said the labourers were carrying goods in amotorised platform used to reach high elevations when it developed some fault and buckled apparently because of its weak structure. As a result, the two labourers fell and hit the ground. They died on the spot.

An Edhi Foundation spokesperson identified the deceased as Jamal Khan, 55, and Yusuf Mohammed, 25.

The SHO said the bodies of the victims, who originally hail from Shangla, were taken away by their relatives for burial in their hometown.

They informed the police that they would lodge an FIR after funeral.

The officer said the contractor/owner of the building had closed down his office and escape. He said his whereabouts were not known.

He said that if the victims’ heirs approached, the police would invoke charges of negligence and manslaughter against the builder(s).

Meanwhile, a man was found murdered in Ittehad Town on Wednesday.

Police said that the body of Asif Mohammed, 42, was found close to a factory at Khyber Chowk. The police said he was strangled. The body also bore marks of torture.

The victim was a motor mechanic.

Man shot dead in Korangi

An elderly man was shot dead in Korangi on Wednesday, police said.

Area SHO Farooq Sanjrani said apparently a lone armed man entered a furniture shop and killed its owner, Farman Irfan, 55.

He said the victim had set up the furniture shop on the second floor of a residential building. In the morning, he was reading a newspaper when the assailant shot him in the head from a close range and fled. He died on the spot.

The SHO suspected some property dispute between the family members as a probable motive for the murder.

Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2022