KARACHI: A young man died when a tree fell due to consecutive heavy winds coupled with moderate rains in the metropolis on Saturday.

Rescue-1122 official Hassaan Khan told Dawn that the tree fell on 24-year-old Saad Jamal in F.B. Area, Block-16. As a result, the young man was badly injured and died.

In another incident, a woman died of electric shock. Police surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed said that the body of a woman, identified as Khatoon Mithal, 50, was brought from Kaneez Fatima Society in limits of Surjani Town police to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital on Saturday night. She died of electrocution in Abdul Raheem Goth.

Separately, five persons, including two physically challenged women, were rescued when a staircase of dilapidated building collapsed in Aram Bagh near Burhani Hospital on Saturday.

Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2024