Shaheen Stop News Today

On Wednesday, December 22, a man, identified as 30-year-old Jameel Ahmed, breathed his last at the Civil Hospital in Karachi. He was critically injured after a bank building near Shershahs Paracha Chowk was destroyed following an explosion. The blast occurred at 1:30pm on December 18. It was a loud one and echoes could be heard from afar. Videos from the site showed that a portion of the building fell into the stormwater drain over which it had been constructed. Seventeen people (now 18) were ki...

Seventeen people were killed and eleven others were injured on Saturday after a shopping centre encroached on a Shershah nullah (drain) exploded due to the build-up of gas.   Soon after the explosion, a debate about the ownership of the shopping centre started.  The shopping centre was owned by Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (SITE) Limited. And, it was SITE that encroached on the drain.    A map shows that the building on the drain with factories on both sides. Shershah...

A SAMAA Digital fact-check has revealed that the building that was destroyed by sewage gas explosion in Shershah was owned by Site Industrial Trading Estate (SITE) Limited, also known as SITE Limited. The building was constructed by illegally covering the sewer. But it has a valid address.  Kemari District Deputy Commissioner Mukhtar Abro told Sama Digital that it was Shopping Center Number 2 of SITE limited. The drain that was covered to construct this building is known as Shersh...