KARACHI, July 28: Karachiittes have urged the city government to start aerial spray to save them from the attack of mosquitoes and flies.

Citizens of Karachi said despite the announcement by the city government one month ago that it will conduct a spray, an aerial or ground spray is still awaited in most of the residential areas.

They said flies attack during the day while mosquitoes do not permit them to sleep peacefully in the night.

Mrs Bukhsh, a resident of Block 13-D Gulshan-i-Iqbal, told APP that mosquitoes and flies have swarmed their apartment building.

A physician Dr Haleem Siddiqui of Block 5, Gulshan-i-Iqbal said he was receiving so many cases of malaria.

Most of them are children who come to his clinic in high fever, he noted.

Another physician Dr Asif, having clinic in Sindhi Hotel area in North Karachi, said cases of seasonal fever were on the rise.

An official of CDGK said a spray was conducted in some areas.—APP