"Police arrest factory owner over 18 deaths in Keamari", 30 January 2023

Police arrested a factory owner on Sunday on the charges of manslaughter and negligence following 18 mysterious deaths of people, including 16 children, who had died due to toxic fumes over the past several weeks in Karachi’s Keamari locality.

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The complainant told the police in his statement that he is a resident of a Katchi Abadi in Ali Muhammad Goth. He said that several recycling factories are operating near his locality without taking any precautionary measures and emitting mysterious toxic gases that have taken several innocent lives.

SHO Chaudhry Shahid told The News that the FIR has been registered against three factory owners: Khair Muhammad, alias Sher Ali, Shahid Hussain and Saeed Khan. He said that some unidentified factory owners have also been accused in the FIR.

The officer said that one of the owners of a plastic recycling factory, namely Khair Muhammad, has been arrested, while efforts are under way to arrest the other factory owners. Eighteen people, majority of them children, have died in Ali Muhammad Goth and Mawach Goth between January 10 and January 25 after inhaling mysterious toxic gases emitting from the factories operating in the residential areas.