Rescue workers recovered more bodies from the Karachi beach on yesyerday, raising the death toll of the drowned persons to 24 since Wednesday night.
Despite a ban on swimming in the sea, more than a dozen persons drowned at Clifton beach in the provincial capital on the second day of Eid-ul-Fitr. Three of the victims were members of the same family and their bodies have been sent back to their ancestral village.
According to sources at rescue services, the bodies of the deceased were shifted to Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre for completion of medico-legal formalities.
