Thirteen people including seven children were crushed to death in Karachi when a rare landslide struck their thatch huts as they slept, Pakistani officials said. The victims, who police said were from three families.
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Rescue workers and paramilitary forces search for survivors in the rubble of a landslide in the Gulistan-i-Jauhar area in Karachi. Athar Hussain / Reuters -
Pakistani rescuers move the body of a victim of a landslide in Karachi. Asif Hassan / AFP -
A Pakistani mourner talks on a mobile phone at the site of a landslide in Karachi. Asif Hassan / AFP -
Relatives grieve upon seeing a body of a victim, that was pulled from the rubble of a landslide in the Gulistan-i-Jauhar area, in an ambulance in Karachi. Athar Hussain / Reuters -
Pakistani paramilitary soldiers and rescuers search for victims in the debris. Asif Hassan / AFP -
Pakistani relatives mourn beside the body of their family member who was killed in a landslide. Asif Hassan / AFP -
Pakistani rescue workers remove a dead body from the site of landslide in Karachi. Shakil Adil / AP -
Pakistani rescue workers search for bodies. Police say a landslide has hit three makeshift homes in a slum, killing more than a dozen people. Senior police officer Javed Jaskani says the incident took place early Tuesday when a mass of mud and rocks crashed down a hill into camps in Karachi, the capital of southern Sindh province. He says women and children were among the dead and injured. Shakil Adil / AP -
People stand beside the debris of a landslide in which at least 13 people were killed in Karachi. Rehan Khan / EPA
Thirteen killed in Karachi landslide - in pictures
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