Roof collapse: 3 die in sleep

GUJRANWALA: Three people died when the roof of a house caved in on Monday due to rain in Satellite Town. A man, his wife and their children sleeping in the two-room house were buried under the rubble. Rescue 1122 teams reached the scene and removed the family from under the debris. Muhammad Shahid’s 28-year-old wife Saima, six-year-old daughter Noor Fatima and one-and-a-half-year-old son Shehroze died on the spot. Shahid was shifted to a hospital.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 17^th, 2012.