At least five people drowned and three others are missing as a launch carrying 28 people capsized in the open sea in Ibrahim Haidery. 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 five people had drowned while twenty including the launch crew were saved by another launch, which was crossing by the drowning boat. Three passengers, search for whom was on till the filing of this report, were reported missing.
The rescuers from Pakistan Navy recovered corpses of Salim, Noor-un-Nisa, Bushra, Irshman and Sanjida Khalil. 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.