Eleven killed in Karachi building collapse.

KARACHI -- Eleven people died and several were wounded after three residential buildings collapsed on Thursday in the city's Golimar area, officials said. Police surgeon Dr Qarar Abbasi said that 18 wounded have been shifted to the hospital. MLO Abbasi Shaheed Hospital informed that bodies of seven women, three children and one man were brought to the hospital after the incident. "Among those who have been identified in the building collapse are Haider, Maryam, Yahya, Hira and Ghulam Mustafa," Senior Director Health KMC Dr Salma Kosar earlier said. One woman had also died in the building collapse but authorities had not been able to identify her yet. Rescue sources said that the wounded were shifted to a nearby hospital.

Two children were also retrieved from the rubble, said the sources. According to police, of the three buildings, one was completely destroyed, while major portions of the other two buildings were razed to the ground. Police said that a fourth building near the three collapsed buildings was also declared unsafe. Army personnel and a team from the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) reached Golimar Number 2 the site of the incident to...

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