A dilapidated, three-story building in a poorer neighborhood of Pakistan’s port city of Karachi collapsed before dawn on Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 14, a rescue and senior police official said.<\/p>\n
Several hours into the day, rescuers were still working and pulling more bodies from under the rubble, according to Rizwan Edhi, a top official for Pakistan’s largest private ambulance service, Edhi.<\/p>\n
“Rescuers are using heavy machinery with utmost care as we can still hear voices of people trapped in the rubble,” he said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, senior police official Aran Kobra said the dead included a man and his son, who were sleeping when the building collapsed. He said up to two people were still believed to be trapped under the rubble.<\/p>\n
TV footage showed a teenage boy crying for help as residents struggled with their hands to remove a concrete pillar that had fallen on his leg. Later, the boy was rescued with the help of construction machinery.<\/p>\n
Shortly after the 3 a.m. collapse, when only two were reported killed, Karachi’s Deputy Commissioner Farid Uddin warned the death toll could climb further as rescue workers painstakingly sifted through the rubble.<\/p>\n
Uddin said the cause of the collapse wasn’t immediately known though reports indicated the building was old and poorly constructed, which could have contributed to the collapse.<\/p>\n
Safety codes are often ignored in Pakistan and in some of the poorer areas construction is haphazard and bribes are paid to inspectors to approve substandard construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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