House In Flames: Five-year-old boy dies in fire

A little boy was burnt alive when a fire broke out in Saido Burdi village in Nara Taluka.

SUKKUR:
A little boy was burnt alive when a fire broke out in Saido Burdi village in Nara Taluka, Khairpur district, on Saturday morning. The parents, Mohammad Yakoob Burdi and his wife had left the house to go cotton picking in the nearby fields and five-year-old Zameer was sleeping. Some clothes caught fire and the whole house was swept up in flames. The neighbours put out the fire but Zameer was burnt and could not survive.


Published in The Express Tribune, January 15th, 2012.