A sever heatwave continued to batter Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi for a third week, filling hospitals with patients and morgues with boides, officials and rescuers said on Thursday. More than 50 people have died so far due to heatstroke since the start of the latest wave last month, police spokeswoman Summiya Syed said. Dozens […]
An old video of an Indian mayor and his companions falling into a creek as their boat toppled over resurfaced in May 2024 in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui, the mayor of Karachi in Pakistan. The clip is from 2016 and shows Surendra Furtado, then-mayor of the western Indian […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A massive fire broke out Wednesday at a multi-story commercial building in Pakistan’s largest southern port city of Karachi, killing at least three people and damaging several shops, police and rescue officials said. The fire started at a furniture store and quickly engulfed other shops on the ground floor of the […]