Bureau Report
KARACHI: At least four people died of electrocution in different neighbourhoods of Karachi on Wednesday, police, rescue services and hospital officials said, as parts of the city received monsoon rains for the third day.
Mohammed Rafiq, 50, was riding a motorcycle when an electric wire fell on him on Habib Rehmatullah Road popularly known as Stadium Road near Kingri House. He died on the spot. The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) to fulfil legal formalities. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Haleem Adil Shaikh held the K-Electric responsible for Rafiq’s death, announcing that he would get a first information report registered against the power utility.
He claimed that the wire fell down after a short circuit. Shaikh, who visited the spot, observed that KE had not removed the live wire even though two-and-a-half hours had passed.
Meanwhile, talking to media at the JPMC, PTI lawmaker Khurram Sher Zaman said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had taken notice of the PTI’s protest against the “atrocities” of KE and had called the opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly to Islamabad on Thursday. His son brought his body to the hospital in a rickshaw.
