Summary The plots in Korangi were shifted to Gulistan-e-Jauhar's hill from 2010 to 2012
KARACHI (Dunya News) – It has been revealed on Tuesday that the landsliding incident today that claimed at least 13 lives is actually another China-cutting plot.
The plots in Korangi were shifted to Gulistan-e-Jauhar’s hill from 2010 to 2012.
Nominated in several China-cutting cases, Chunnu Mamu had built multi-storey flats, colluding with Karachi Development Authority (KDA) on Gulistan-e-Jauhar’s hill. Relatively cheaper plots in Korangi were shifted to Gulistan-e-Jauhar to acquire ‘legitimacy’.
The land was dug at numerous places for electricity polls to support high-tension wires without land-tests which are required before construction. The digging weakened the sand at edges that led to landsliding today.
Three women and seven children among 13 have lost lives in the incident.
The district administration and the police have decided to issue notices to plot owners to evacuate the land within a week. The site is vulnerable to more incidents like this in the near future.
Landsliding took place at around 2:00am (PST) when a mass of rocks and soil fell on a slum from a nearby hill, burying three camps of a laborers family in Gulistan-e-Jauhar area of Karachi.
