Staff Report

KARACHI: Death toll in the Godam Chourangi accident has mounted to seven, SAMAA reported Sunday.

These people were killed in a rare kind of accident near Godam Chowrangi in Karachi on Saturday night.

Died people included a woman and child.

A bus, carrying merrymakers of a wedding ceremony, was pressed down by a fallen pillar of a linking bridge, killing five of them and injuring another five.  Dead include father and sister of bride while a child is also among those killed.

Bodies and injured were shifted to Jinnah Hospital. More than 50 celebrating individuals were onboard who were rescued by cutting the wreckage.  

Eyewitnesses said that a blunder committed by the driver resulted in the deadly accident. SAMAA