Beach visiting family including 12 people drowned bodies recovered in Karachi

Beach visiting family including 12 people drowned bodies recovered in Karachi.  A local family visiting beach on Saturday afternoon.

Beach visiting family including 12 people drowned bodies recovered in Karachi.

Police reported that rescue activities finished 12 bodies from the sea.

The local people who was at spot told to official three of the picnickers were caught up in the waves and several people jumped in to rescue them but got caught themselves and drowned.

Beach visiting family including 12 people drowned bodies recovered in Karachi.

According to sources all people who died member of one family.

Police and rescue sources said that 12 bodies, two women among them, recovered while two people saved from drowning.

According to Edhi officials, bodies of all 12 people who drowned recovered while eight bodies including a woman shifted to a civil hospital.

They said the incident was reported in the Hawkesbay area where the ill-fated victims had come for a picnic from Nazimabad neighbourhood.

The official said that the victims had ignored the repeated warnings of the life guards deployed at the beach.

In May, up to 18 people, including four school students, drowned in various beaches of the city.

Citizens fed up with recent high temperatures in the coastal city turn to the sea for recreation and to enjoy the day at the beach.

Some residents, however, do not take necessary precautions and end up losing their lives in the process.

Beach visiting family including 12 people drowned bodies recovered in Karachi.

According to officials died people name was, 25-year-old Ali, twenty-five-year-old Wajaj, thirty-year-old.

Omir, fifty-year-old Saud, twenty-five-year-old Tala, eighteen-year-old Flaza, thirty-year-old Asmat, twelve-year-old.

Hamza, fifteen-year-old Abdo Saud and twenty-five-year-old Ali.

Provincial Minister Sohail Anwar Khan Sial also directed police to take all possible measures to prevent such incidents on the beach.

The local people who at spot told to official three of the picnickers caught up in the waves.

And several people jumped in to rescue them but waves caught themselves and drowned.