5 dead, 4 injured as under-construction building collapses in Karachi.

At least five people were killed while four labourers were injured on Wednesday when an under-construction building near Qadri Masjid in Karachi's Shah Faisal Colony No.5 collapsed, rescue officials said.

According to the police, four victims were labourers while the fifth one was a passerby vendor. Shah Faisal Colony Police Station House Officer (SHO) Saqib Khan said that labourers were in the process of laying a reinforced cement concrete roof when it collapsed.

He said construction of two floors...

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