A mysterious illness has killed 18 people, mostly children, in Karachi’s Kemari area with health officials in this southern Pakistani port city still unable to find the cause of the deaths.
Director Health Services Abdul Hameed Jumani confirmed on Friday that 18 people, including 14 children, died from the mysterious illness in the Mawach Goth area in Kemari between January 10 and 25.
“A health team is working right now to find the cause of these deaths but we suspect it may be related to the sea or water as the goth (village) where these deaths have taken place is close to the coastal belt,” he said.
