At least 16 people, including three women and a child, are confirmed dead after a five-storey residential building collapsed in Lyari neighbourhood early Friday morning, authorities said on Saturday.

Karachi: The death toll from the five-storey residential building collapse in Karachi’s Lyari has risen to 17 as more bodies were recovered from the debris, the Pakistani authorities said Saturday. Emergency responders have rescued nine injured survivors so far,

The city witnessed two such incidents within 72 hours in September 2020, claiming the lives of at least three people and injuring over a dozen. Lyari also faced a similar incident in June 2020, when 22 people were killed after a five-storey residential building housing about 40 apartments collapsed.