Public safety: Two children die in wall collapse

Three others hospitalised with minor injuries.

BAHAWALPUR:

Two children died and three others were injured on Tuesday when the wall of a building collapsed.

Rescue officials said that the children were playing in an empty plot adjacent to a dilapidated house in Sodaywala near Uch Sharif when the wall fell.

Ajmal, 10, and Sajid, 8, were trapped beneath the rubble and died Shahid, 7, Zahida, 10, and Fiza, 5, were injured in the incident. The injured children were taken to Health Centre, where doctors treating them later said they were now out of danger.

Akhtar, father of one of the injured children, told The Express Tribune that the children often played in the plot. He said on Tuesday afternoon, the residents of the area heard a loud noise.
They rushed to see what had happened and found the wall had collapsed. He said they could hear the screams of the injured children, but it took then an hour to pull them out. Two of them, he said, were dead when they were pulled out.

One of the doctor said that the remaining children had received only minor injuries to the head and back.

Investigation officer Mahar Altaf said that the investigation into the case had started.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 8^th, 2012.