Landslide: Woman, two daughters crushed to death
A case has been registered at the police station
SWABI:
An Afghan woman and her two daughters were killed in a landslide at a refugee camp in Gandaf, Swabi. Another daughter was also injured in the incident. Police reported 32-year-old Afghan national Zarmina had come from Afghanistan to her father’s house with her three daughters to meet relatives living in the refugee camp. The four of them were asleep when the landslide hit the house and caused the roof to collapse. As a result, Zarmina, Gulmeena, 6, and Husna, 3, were killed and Bilquees, 18, was injured. Camp residents helped remove the debris and shifted the bodies for legal formalities to the Tehsil Hospital Topi. Sub-inspector Irshad Khan reached the site with his team to start investigation. A case has been registered at the police station.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 22nd, 2015.
An Afghan woman and her two daughters were killed in a landslide at a refugee camp in Gandaf, Swabi. Another daughter was also injured in the incident. Police reported 32-year-old Afghan national Zarmina had come from Afghanistan to her father’s house with her three daughters to meet relatives living in the refugee camp. The four of them were asleep when the landslide hit the house and caused the roof to collapse. As a result, Zarmina, Gulmeena, 6, and Husna, 3, were killed and Bilquees, 18, was injured. Camp residents helped remove the debris and shifted the bodies for legal formalities to the Tehsil Hospital Topi. Sub-inspector Irshad Khan reached the site with his team to start investigation. A case has been registered at the police station.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 22nd, 2015.