Pakistan building collapse: Death toll rises to 27 as rescuers search for survivors

The decease toll from the collapsed multi-storey residential gathering successful Karachi has risen to 27, with respective radical inactive missing nether the rubble, officials said connected Sunday (July 6, 2025).

The five-storey gathering successful the Baghdadi country of Lyari collapsed connected Friday (July 4, 2025). The gathering was connected the database of dilapidated buildings successful the aged areas of Karachi.

A full of 27 bodies person been recovered truthful far, including 9 women, 15 men, a 13-year-old child, a 10-year-old child, and a one-year-old infant. The bodies person been shifted to Civil Hospital Karachi by Edhi Ambulance, the Dawn paper reported.

Till Saturday (July 5, 2025), 80% of the rescue cognition had been completed, Deputy Commissioner South Javed Leghari was quoted arsenic saying by the report.

There were 22 aged buildings, retired of which 16 had been vacated by the authorities, but six remained occupied by residents who didn't privation to leave, helium said.

Rescue 1122 spokesperson Hassaanul Haseeb Khan said respective radical are inactive missing nether the rubble. “Five people, including 3 women, person been injured truthful far,” Edhi Rescue Service said in a statement.

Meanwhile, speaking to the media, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said a elaborate enquiry into the causes of the illness would beryllium conducted, with committees already formed to analyse the substance thoroughly.

He said implicit 480 buildings successful aged metropolis areas, mostly successful the South district, person been declared dangerous. Murad said the collapsed gathering was constructed lone a fewer months ago, seemingly without due approval, and those liable for unauthorised operation would look strict punishment.

Lyari is 1 of Karachi’s astir congested, low-lying, and low-income areas.

Earlier this week, 22 radical had been rescued from an aged gathering successful the Soldier Bazar country erstwhile a information of it collapsed, leaving residents trapped connected the precocious floor. The provincial authorities has declared immoderate 570 buildings successful the aged Karachi areas arsenic unsafe and asked residents to evacuate them.