Funeral prayers of three victims of house fire offered
The funeral prayers of three children were offered on Saturday after six-year-old Ahmed who lost consciousness due to suffocation as a result of a house fire in Chauhar Majra also succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.
The three children were buried in the Chauhar Majra cemetery in the presence of hundreds of mourners. They suffocated to death after the house caught fire due to short circuit on Friday.
Two children who were taken to a hospital were in a critical condition where one succumbed to the injuries.
Local police and Rescue 1122 teams reached the spot and doused the fire. The children were recovered from the second floor of the house by the locals and were shifted to a hospital.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 4th, 2021.