According to Dawn, citing police, the body of a young man who had been missing since an explosion in a drain in Karachi’s Lasbela Chowk neighborhood has been discovered.
As per the police, the body found on Saturday was identified as a 22-year-old employee of a courier company, TCS.
The body was taken to Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital, Karachi, where doctors confirmed that the victim died from the “impact of the explosion” in the drain, Station House Officer (SHO) of Soldier Bazaar police station Pir Shabbir Haider told Dawn.com.
Eight people were injured and the TCS employee was declared ‘missing’ after Friday’s explosion, purportedly due to the accumulation of gases, police said.
“Police launched a search operation to trace him with the help of divers and he was found dead inside the drain near Patel Para on Saturday morning,” the SHO added.
According to Google Maps, Lasbela Chowk, the site of the explosion, is 10 minutes’ walk from Patel Para, according to Dawn. The deceased, according to SHO Haider, had left his office to exchange some money when the explosion happened, and as a result of the explosion’s impact, he fell into the drain.