Four die as roof collapses due to heavy rain

Four members of a family were buried alive and others sustained serious injuries when a roof of a house collapsed in Chakwal in the wee hours of Friday morning.

According to details, four members of the family, including three girls and a boy, were killed when the roof of their house collapsed due to heavy rains in Chakwal.

Rescue officials informed that the roof of the house caved in after heavy rains lashed the area.

Rescue teams reached the spot and retrieved bodies from the rubble and pulled out two other persons in injured condition, a private news channel reported. Rescue teams shifted the dead and injured to a hospital.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 5^th, 2020.