Billboard collapse: Karachi mall announces to support paralyzed man.

KARACHI -- Administration of a shopping mall has extended its support to the salesman who got paralyzed after a large billboard collapsed on him during the recent dust storm in Karachi.

'We are in contact with the family and are doing everything in our control to help them get through this difficult time and are hopeful that by the grace of Almighty he will be fine soon,' the announcement read.

Syed Ashar Shah, the victim, was enjoying a walk after taking lunch when the huge billboard of a shopping mall fell on him during the dust storm.

Passersby had pulled him from under the billboard. Unable to walk, Ashar Shah had said that he was feeling severe pain in his backbone at that time and he was rushed to a private hospital in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.

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