BAJAUR: Six persons, including five children, were killed and as many were injured when roof a house collapsed in Khar town on Monday night, Rescue 1122 officials and residents said.

They said the incident occurred in Eidgah Street when roof of a mud house collapsed, burying all the inmates under the debris.

Local residents said six persons, including five children, died on the spot, and six others two women among them were injured.

The residents said they rushed to the house after the roof collapse and started pulling out the people trapped under the debris.

Later, a rescue team also reached the spot and retrieved the bodies and the injured from under the rubble.

Mohammad Saad Khan, district emergency officer of Rescue 1122, told Dawn the injured were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital, Khar, after being given first aid on the spot. He said condition of two of the injured was critical.

The deceased were identified as eight-month-old Nadia Bibi, four-year-old Rabia, Umera Bibi, 10, Fatima Bibi, 8, Aisha Bibi, 10, and Ismail Khan, 18.

The injured included Saddam Khan, 20, Hasina Bibi, 4, Tawheed Bibi, 7, Shazama Bibi, 32, Saima Bibi, 30, and eight-month-old Asia Bibi.

The residents said head of the ill-fated family, Liaqat Khan, was not present in the house when the mishap occurred. They said Liaqat worked as a labourer in the Khar Bazaar.

The deceased were laid to rest in a graveyard in Khar on Tuesday evening.

Published in Dawn, January 4th, 2023