A high-level probe has been initiated in the crash of Tariq Garden ( a ground plus five-storey) residential building located in Kharkan Muhalla, Mahad district, which claimed 12 lives. According to locals, the builder had been evading the pleas of residents staying in the building about the shoddy construction work, which included plaster peeling off the pillars. This was photographed by residents of the ill-fated building on Monday morning, few hours before it came crashing down around 7 pm.

Many people are feared trapped inside the debris. Sarkar Jalal, a resident of Mahad, who had relatives staying in Tariq Garden (they were fortunate to have left the building hours before it fell) and some residents had captured pictures of the pillars before the collapse. "This is nothing but the result of shoddy work by the builder, who used substandard materials such as steel, cement and sand, and poor workmanship," he said.