Sindh govt suspends SBCA DG over Lyari building collapse: minister

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has suspended the director general of the Sindh Building and Control Authority over the recent building collapse in Karachi that claimed 27 lives, a minister said on Monday.

The five-storey building on Fida Husain Shaikha Road in Lea Market collapsed on Friday morning, with the rescue operations concluding yesterday. The building had already been declared uninhabitable by authorities due to its dilapidated structure, with the SBCA saying it had issued...