14 hurt as wall caves in

Published March 25, 2002

LARKANA, March 24: Fourteen people were injured, four of them seriously, when a wall of the Hussain Shah Imambargah on the outskirts of Larkana, near Mirokhan Chowk, caved in on Sunday.

People were deeply absorbed in listening to the speech of the Zakir when they were injured by the caving wall.

The injured were identified as Ubaid, Azad Shah, M. Mithal, Rasool Bakhsh, Nazir Sangi, Riaz Ali, Junaid, Rahimdad, M. Farooque, Javed, Imtiaz Shah and three others whose names could not be ascertained.

Edhi ambulances took the injured to the Chandka Medical College Teaching Hospital.

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