Case filed against factory owner after 11 die in Karachi ration stampede

People mourn the decease of a relative, who was killed with others successful a stampede during handout distribution, astatine a infirmary morgue successful Karachi, connected March 31, 2023. — Reuters

• Case registered astatine SITE A constabulary station.
• Sections 322, 337H-2 and 34 of PPC included successful FIR.
• Nearly 10 radical arrested truthful far.

KARACHI: Police booked connected Saturday the proprietor and medication unit of the mill linked with the deadly stampede in Karachi that killed astir a twelve radical and injured respective others. 

At slightest 11 radical had been killed and 5 were injured connected Friday during a stampede wrong the premises of a mill astatine the Naurus intersection successful Karachi's SITE area, the latest incidental successful which radical mislaid their lives to seek escaped edibles.

The lawsuit was registered astatine the SITE A constabulary presumption connected behalf of Sub-inspector (SI) Malik Asif Zia nether Sections 322 (punishment for unintentional murder), 337H-2 (punishment for wounded by rash oregon negligent act), and 34 (acts done by respective persons successful furtherance of communal intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).

As per the archetypal accusation study (FIR), negligence by mill unit caused a stampede during the organisation of ration that resulted successful deaths.

It stated that the women and children were killed successful the stampede that took spot arsenic soon arsenic the information defender opened the tiny gross of the mill to fto the assemblage successful for the collection of rations. It added that mill managers Islam and Jaseem had been distributing currency arsenic Zakat astatine the mill connected behalf of mill proprietor Abdul Khaliq for respective years.

The nominated suspects see Khaliq, the 2 managers and 7 others.

The constabulary said that 8 suspects including the mill proprietor and managers had already been arrested. 

The incident

The incidental occurred portion radical were gathered astatine a dyeing mill successful the city's concern country to cod ration — which is portion of foundation drives that Karachiites clasp each Ramadan to assistance the needy.

Those killed successful the incidental see 8 women and 3 children, the rescue and constabulary officials had told Geo News.

Six radical besides fainted during the stampede, rescue sources had said. According to police, a ample fig of radical had gathered astatine the tract wherever the ration was being distributed.