ISLAMABAD: 13 people were reportedly killed in separate incidents of wall collapses in Islamabad on Wednesday due to heavy monsoon rains in the federal capital and Rawalpindi.
The Twin Cities continued to receive heavy rains as the Monsoon current from the Arabian Sea intensified today as the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) predicted Rawalpindi to receive the heaviest rainfall of around 200 mm.
Police said that 12 people were killed when the wall of the bridge under construction collapsed near Golra Mor on Peshawar Road in Islamabad.
He said that the wall was 100 feet wide and 11 feet high under which the workers had pitched tents to stay at the construction site.
Rescue 1122 officials said that the rescue teams reached the accident site as soon as the information was received.
The police said that the rescue workers removed the bodies from the rubble of the wall with the help of machines. The search for more people buried under the debris is going on, so far four people have been rescued alive.
Meanwhile, an 11-year-old girl was killed in a similar wall collapse incident in Mohammadi Town, within police station limits of Islamabad.
In a separate rain-related incident, two buses traveling on the Islamabad Peshawar Motorway collided with each other after losing control due to the slippery road during the rain, injuring several people.
Rescue 1122 says its teams are working to help the injured while the critically injured are being shifted to hospitals in Wah Kent and Taxila.
