KARACHI: A six-year-old boy on Thursday died after the roof of a shop razed in the ongoing anti-encroachment drive collapsed in Karachi’s Korangi No 6 area.
The minor boy identified as Osama was a garbage collector and was “pulling iron from the rubble of razed shops when the roof collapsed on him, killing him,” the police said.
It had been reported that an operation against illegal encroachments had started in the area a few days ago.
In 2018, the Supreme Court had ordered city-wide anti-encroachment drive, after which the Karachi Development Authority, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and other civic bodies, backed by law enforcers are carrying out anti-encroachment operations across the metropolis on the apex court’s orders.
