Overview
- Police and rescue officials say 67 deaths have been confirmed, with search teams still working through debris and district records listing up to 88 people as missing.
- Thirty bodies were recovered from a mezzanine-floor crockery shop where victims had taken refuge, with investigators tracing last phone locations to the site and reporting multiple exits found closed.
- Identification is progressing slowly as most remains are fragmentary, with DNA collected from more than 50 families and only a limited number of victims confirmed so far, according to the police surgeon.
- A technical committee from the SBCA and PEC has declared Gul Plaza dangerous and advised demolition after recovery efforts, as authorities also reported damage to parts of the adjacent Rimpa Plaza and removed the municipal commissioner.
- Investigators have prepared a CCTV-based timeline and launched a judicial inquiry, with preliminary findings disputing an electrical short circuit and pointing to a shop-origin fire, while the Sindh government announced compensation for victims’ families.