Pakistani Christian Dies After Inhaling Poisonous Gases From Sewer Work
(World Watch Monitor) — A Pakistani Christian, who fell ill after inhaling poisonous gases at work, died on Saturday (Jan. 20) after three days on a life-support machine.
Shahzad Masih, 24, who leaves a wife and two young children, worked as a sewer cleaner in the Korangi area of the southern city of Karachi, as an irregular employee (so not entitled to any compensation or privileges) of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board.
Masih’s cousin, Yousuf Masih, who is also a sewer cleaner, told World Watch Monitor that on Jan. 17 their supervisor had sent Shahzad to help unblock a gutter in a nearby area.
“Only a little later we came to know that he became unconscious after he was sent down in the gutter,” Yousuf said. “We took him to the nearby Indus Hospital, but they told us that he had been placed on a ventilator and then was sent by ambulance to the Creek General Hospital, where he died on Saturday.”
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