Tsunami hits Multan,7 people died in stampede as Jalsa ended

Lahore: Tsunami hit Multan as stampede taken  7 lives in Multan and left several injured and unconscious immediately after the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf  public meeting ended in the Multan Stadium. Thousands of workers tried to get out of the stadium immediately after the gathering ended due to which 7 workers of the party died of suffocation and several others went unconscious and injured.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ,Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif,former interior minister Rehman Malik,Ameer Jamaat e Islami Sirajul Haq ,MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain and other leadership has express grief and sorrow over this sad incident.Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has expressed deep sense of sorrow and grief over loss of precious human lives due to stampede in public meeting at Multan. The Chief Minister directed that best medical facilities should be provided to injured persons in the hospital. He also expressed sympathies and condolences with the bereaved families.

Volunteers shifted the injured and dead bodies to Nishter Hospital, Multan. Sources claim that there were around 80,000 people present in the meeting but there was only one gate for the entrance and exit of the workers. Injured in large numbers are still present outside the stadium while the volunteer teams are giving them medical help.

PTI spokesperson Shirien Mazari said that the incompetence of the district administration caused the incident. “We pleaded before Elite Force to get the stage vacated but they did not listen to us”, she said. Talking to Dunya News, she said that even lives of the PTI leaders were threatened.

Awami Muslim League (AML) leader Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad admitted that the arrangements for the gathering were not good. He said that he reached the stage by climbing on a pole. He said that loss of 7 lives is not a routine incident and PTI leadership will surely take notice of it. He said that there were more people than expected. “I told Imran Khan that the crowd is huge and the conditions are not right”, AML leader said.