As many as 18 people, including 16 children, died in a Keamari locality over the past few days due to inhaling toxic gas emitting from some factories functioning in the residential neighbourhoods, health department confirmed on Thursday.
Officials said that the 18 deaths took place over a period of two weeks — between Jan 10 and 25 — in Ali Muhammad Goth, Mowach Goth, Keamari.
On Thursday, a team of health department was sent to the area concerned and according to their preliminary investigation, “the cause of deaths is some chemicals which are developing interstitial lung disease”.
