Unidentified people on late Saturday night demolished a 100-years-old bungalow located inside Jufelhurst School in Soldier Bazar area of Karachi, which had been declared a heritage site by the culture department of Sindh government.
This later prompted the authorities to take action against the suspects involved in demolishing the national heritage site.
According to the school’s office-bearers Mohammad Shafiq and Athar, on late Saturday night around 40-50 people started demolishing the Bungalow inside Jufelhurst School premises.The locals gathered and informed the concerned police and the education department about the situation, they added.
Talking to Dawn, they said “in the meantime, Soldier Bazaar SHO Irshad Soomro reached here along with the police party and stopped the demolishing work. However, a significant portion of the historic building had been demolished by that time”.
Shafiq said, the same people returned on Sunday morning and demolished the remaining portion of the heritage site. He said the school was declared as a heritage site by the provincial government in 2012 and the bungalow was also part of it.