Child falls to death in elevator shaft in Karachi

KARACHI: A twelve-year-old child plunged to his death from the 8th floor of a residential building in Karachi on Saturday in an elevator accident highlighting poor building safety regulations in the metropolis.

The accident happened at a residential apartment complex, located in the downtown Saddar area, where 12-year-old Zain was waiting on the 8th floor for the elevator. According to police reports, Zain fell around 80 feet to his death as the elevator doors opened without the lift arriving at the 8th floor.

Police said that three to four elevators were not working in the residential apartment building. The administration of the building has been summoned to the police station, they said.

Police said that this was the second such accident in a span of three months.

A resident of the building said the only functional elevator of the building was in a dilapidated condition.

Earlier this month a woman was killed and another man injured after an elevator fell in a residential complex located in the Gulistan-e-Johar area of the city.

In August this year, a delivery boy died in a similar accident at building in Clifton.