{"id":15180,"date":"2017-08-23T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T06:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15180"},"modified":"2017-08-23T11:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T06:57:24","slug":"rain-wreaks-havoc-in-karachi-leaves-19-dead-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15180","title":{"rendered":"Rain wreaks havoc in Karachi, leaves 19 dead in two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KARACHI, Aug 23 (TNS):<\/strong> At least eight people died and eleven others were injured in different incidents of electrocution and roof collapse on Tuesday night as heavy rain lashed the city, wreaking havoc on the creaky municipal infrastructure and power supply system.<\/p>\n<p>With the eleven\u00a0deaths on Monday night, the death toll from rain-related incidents in two days reached\u00a019.<\/p>\n<p>Karachi\u2019s Landhi town received the maximum of 37 millimeters of rainfall, followed by 32 millimeters of rainfall in Gulsahn-e-Hadeed, 31 in\u00a0Nazimabad, 29 in Faisal Base, and 26 in Masroor Base, according to the meteorological department.<\/p>\n<p>Present spell of heavy rain is expected to continue till Thursday, weather department said.<\/p>\n<p>Several roads, thoroughfares and low-lying areas were inundated by the rainfall, besides, disrupting power supply in\u00a0the large swathes of the city due to tripping of over 400 feeders.<\/p>\n<p>Deaths\u00a0were reported in different parts of the city mostly due to electrocution. Two people died of powerful electric shock in Korangi\u2019s Zaman Town and two deaths from electrocution were also reported in Baldia Town and New Karachi areas.<\/p>\n<p>At least eight people were killed and seven others injured in rain-related incidents in\u00a0different parts of the metropolis on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Two pillion riders\u00a0identified as Mansoor and Harris died of electric shock after\u00a0an electric wire snapped and fell into rain water accumulated on the road in Garden area.<\/p>\n<p>Two people, including a woman, died\u00a0of electrocution in North Karachi and New Karachi areas of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Young siblings \u2013 14-year old Maryam and 12-year old Junaid \u2013 were killed when the roof of their dilapidated house came down on them due to the heavy rain near Disco Morr\u00a0in New Karachi. The rescue workers and residents of the area rushed to the spot and pulled out their bodies. They were rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced them dead.<\/p>\n<p>Two people including a woman died in separate incidents of roof collapse in Lasi Goth and Faqeer Goth off\u00a0Super Highway, whereas in a similar incident in Surjani Town six people were injured when the roof of their house caved in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Aug 23 (TNS): At least eight people died and eleven others were injured in different incidents of electrocution and roof collapse on Tuesday night as heavy rain lashed the city, wreaking havoc on the creaky municipal infrastructure and power supply system. With the eleven\u00a0deaths on Monday night, the death toll from rain-related incidents in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[145,589],"class_list":["post-15180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi","category-national","tag-karachi","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15182,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180\/revisions\/15182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}