KARACHI - Three labourers were killed while working in
the Gadani shipbreaking yard on the Balochistan coast.
Gadani shipbreaking yard is one of the world’s largest
shipbreaking operations where shipbreaking has been taking place since before
Pakistan’s independence.
Thousands of local labourers work in unsafe conditions,
often for a pittance.
Sources said that several labourers were working in the
shipbreaking yard, about 50 kilometres northwest of Karachi, when heavy iron
rubble from a ship’s deck fell on them, killing three of them on the spot and
injuring several others.
The labourers were immediately shifted to Karachi,
sources said.
With annual capacity of breaking over a hundred ships of
all sizes, the yard is located on a 10 km stretch of beach at Gadani, 50 kilometres
from Karachi city.
Thousands of Karachiites visit the Gadani beach for its
majestic beauty.
Fires and accidents are common in the shipbreaking yard
where workers extract metals, steel pipes and valves, electricity cables,
machinery and wood from derelict ships.
Source: Pakistan Today. 19 October 2012
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/10/19/news/national/karachi-three-labourers-die-at-gadani-shipbreaking-yard/
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