Rescue efforts: Bodies recovered from collapsed well

Bodies of three men, who died after walls of a well collapsed on them, were recovered on Saturday in Multan.

MULTAN: Bodies of three men, who died after walls of a well they were cleaning collapsed on them, were recovered on Saturday in Multan.

Rescue workers worked for over 23 hours before finding the first body 34 feet below the surface. Over  past two years, over 30 similar incidents have occurred in southern Punjab, claiming at least 60 lives.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 20^th, 2011.