At least seven dead, eight injured in building collapse in Pakistan's Karachi

A multi-storey residential gathering collapsed successful Pakistan's larboard metropolis of Karachi connected Friday (July 4, 2025), sidesplitting astatine slightest 7 radical and wounding 8 others, media reports said.

Efforts to rescue trapped individuals were underway astatine the gathering situated connected Fida Hussain Shaikha Road successful Lyari’s Baghdadi country successful the city, Dawn newspaper reported, citing a connection from the police.

"A five-storey gathering successful Baghdadi, Lyari has collapsed. Relief and rescue enactment is ongoing," Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui posted connected X.

Mr. Siddiqui aboriginal told the media astatine the incidental tract that 7 bodies had been recovered.

The five-storey gathering — constructed successful 1974 — was connected the database of depilated buildings successful the aged areas of Karachi. Lyari is 1 of Karachi's astir congested, low-lying and low-income areas.

More radical are feared to beryllium trapped nether the debris, officials said, adding that an cognition is underway to rescue them.

Quoting rescue workers, Geo News reported that authorities estimated that up to 25 radical whitethorn inactive beryllium trapped nether the rubble.

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah directed authorities to velocity up rescue efforts. He instructed the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) to taxable a study and place each unsafe structures successful the city.

"This is an unfortunate incident. Negligence volition not beryllium tolerated," Mr. Shah said successful a statement.

The incidental comes conscionable days aft a partial gathering illness successful Karachi's Khardar area, which caused nary casualties.

The provincial authorities has declared immoderate 570 buildings successful aged Karachi arsenic unsafe and asked residents to evacuate them.