Pakistan Views

Eight people drowned and one is missing as a launch carrying 28 people capsized in the open sea in Ibrahim Haidery here on Monday.
According to sources two crewmen and 26 people from at least two families, who were out to celebrate a picnic party, were on their way back home on Sunday evening at around 7:00 pm when their launch drowned in the jurisdiction of Docks Police Station.
The sources said eight people had drowned while twenty including the launch crew were saved by another launch, which was crossing by the drowning boat.
PAF base Korangi Creek Base Commander Air Commodore Khalid Farooq Chishti told media in a briefing that at the time of the incident rescuers from Pakistan Navy were busy in their training. They recovered corpses of Salim, Noor-un-Nisa, Bushra, Irshman and Sanjida Khalil. Twelve year old Maha from Muhammad Salim family is the only survivor.
Sources said that the unfortunate families belonged to the Dredging Manager of Port Qasim Authority (PQA) Ishrat Hussain, who is one of the survivors. The picnickers had hired the boat, which drowned for unknown reason, from Marina Club.