Tragedy Strikes: Two minors burnt alive

LAHORE/ BAGHBANPURA: Two minor girls were burnt alive and as many of their infant siblings sustained critical injuries when a fire broke out at a house at Sawami Nagar, Lahore on Wednesday. Police said the children were alone when a fire, caused by a gas heater, broke out. As a result, two sisters received serious burn injuries and died on the spot, while their siblings received were rushed to the Mayo Hospital. Doctors stated the infants suffered 70% burn injuries and their condition was critical. Four fire rescue vehicles reached the spot and controlled the blaze after learning of the incident. Meanwhile, three members of a family, including two children, died in a road accident in Daroghawala within the Baghbanpura police jurisdiction on Wednesday. According to police, Tahir, 19, along with Muhammad Ahmad, 11, and Abdullah, 10, was on his way home on a motorcycle when a tractor trolley crashed into their vehicle, killing three of them on the spot. The driver of the tractor trolley fled after the accident. The bodies were shifted to Mayo Hospital.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 19^th, 2017.