LAHORE: Three persons, including two women, died while four others injured in a pile-up involving more than seven vehicles on Motorway near Babu Sabu here on Wednesday.

A police official said the accident occurred because of poor visibility caused by smog on the motorway.

He said as a car slowed down due to a thick patch of smog, some other vehicles coming behind it rammed into it.

He said in the accident more than seven vehicles collided with each other, leaving at least two women and a man, travelling by different cars, critically injured. He said four other persons also suffered minor injuries in the incident.

On being informed of the accident, teams of the National Highway and Motorways Police (NH&MP) and Rescue 1122 reached the spot and shifted the injured to different hospitals, where the three critically wounded persons died.

HOUSE FIRE: Two minor children died from severe burns, while another was injured seriously when a fire erupted in a house in Nawankot area here on Wednesday.

The fire incident occurred in a house near Nonarian Chowk, where Safa (5), her brother Ubaid (4), and their one-year-old sister Zohra were playing in a room.

A police official said the parents of the children had gone out, leaving them in the house without supervision of any elder.

Suddenly, a fire erupted in the room, where the children were playing, and spread rapidly, causing multiple burns to all of them.

He said some of the neighbours rushed to the house on seeing flames and dense smoke and also called police and Rescue 1122 emergency service.

The rescue teams reaching the spot shifted the children to hospital where Ubaid and Zohra succumbed to their burns, while the condition of their sibling was stated to be serious.

The children’s parents were informed of the tragic incident on phone, prompting them to rush back to the house.

The police official said apparently the fire broke out because of gas leakage. However, the investigations were underway to ascertain the exact cause of the incident.

Published in Dawn, December 23rd, 2021