- Toll in two days reaches seven as another electrocuted in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
- PMD predicts more showers in Sindh including Karachi and Hyderabad.
- Different areas will experience light to heavy showers with strong winds.
Karachi received light to heavy showers along with gusty winds overnight on Friday, hours after a thunderstorm left at least six people dead and three others injured with electrocution and structural collapse.
The death toll in the past two days has risen to seven as one person lost his life after being electrocuted in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) predicted more widespread intermittent rain with wind, thunder and isolated hail in upper and south-eastern districts of Sindh and at isolated places in Karachi and Hyderabad divisions.
Thunder and lightning echoed through several areas, while light showers fell over the central, northern and southern districts.
Orangi Town and Chishti Nagar witnessed incessant rain and residents also reported brief hail in some areas.
Parts of Saddar, II Chundrigar Road and Burns Road received intermittent showers while North Nazimabad and Nazimabad had light rainfall accompanied by lightning.
Other localities including Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Liaquatabad, Old Golimar, Scheme 33, Malir Halt, Rifah-e-Aam, Garden, Surjani Town and areas along MA Jinnah Road and Shahrah-e-Pakistan were lightly soaked, giving the port city a rare refreshment overnight.
The current wet spell began yesterday (Thursday) when various areas of Karachi received intermittent rains with isolated heavy falls flooding the low-lying areas and disrupting traffic on major arteries and roads, leaving commuters stranded in slow-moving traffic jams. Meanwhile, power supply to various automatic feeders was interrupted.
At least five people lost their lives due to electric shock in different areas during the rain.
In Surjani’s Hassan Brohi Goth, a man died after being electrocuted while working at his home. A similar incident in PIB Colony also proved fatal while a young girl lost her life due to electrocution in Surjani Sector 7-A.
Another man was electrocuted near MA Jinnah Road and a separate incident took place in Ahsanabad along the Super Highway where a laborer died after coming in contact with a live electrical source.
In Old Golimar area, a wall collapsed on a rickshaw during the rain, killing the driver on the spot.
Meanwhile, three children were injured in Orangi Town when a wall of a house collapsed amid the rain. Emergency crews responded quickly and moved the injured to a nearby medical facility.
Rain, wind and thunderstorms occurred at scattered places in the province on Thursday under the influence of a strong westerly wave affecting most parts of the country and likely to continue in upper and central parts until April 4, according to the Met Office.
The provincial and local authorities have taken immediate steps to dispose of rainwater and maintain the flow of traffic.
According to the met office, the wettest area in Karachi was Nazimabad with 70mm of rainfall, Keamari received 56, Saadi Town 48, University Road 44, Bahria Town 44, Orangi Town 39, Gulshan-E-Maymar 36, Jinnah Terminal 35, Surjani Town 35, Base 3 Faiseal Area, HA 3 Faiseal. 30, North Karachi, Masroor Base 29, Korangi 18 and Gulshan-E-Hadeed 17 mm of rain till evening.
Among the other areas of the province, 50 mm of rain was recorded in Mohenjo Daro, followed by Jacobabad with 22, Dadu 14, Hyderabad 13, Larkana 08, Padidan 03, Rohri, Khairpur and Sakrand 02, Chhor and Mithi 01 mm.
The meeting office predicted further probability of widespread intermittent rain-windstorm, thundershowers as well as isolated hailstorms and heavy falls in Mirpurkhas, Sanghar, Umerkot, Nagarparkar, Tharparkar, Dadu, Qambar, Shahdadkot, Kashmore, Jacobabad, Larkana, Subadira, Shapur, Shapur, Shapur, Shahdadkot, Kashmore. Feroze while they are isolated places in Karachi, Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Thatta, Badin and Sujawal districts.
