Dilapidated: 3 of a family die in wall-collapse

Family were trapped underneath the rubble after the wall of their house came down.

UCH SHARIF: A woman and her two children were killed when a wall of a house in Sojala Tanwari near Uch Sharif collapsed on Thursday night. Rescue officials said that Allah Wasai and her children, Karima Bibi, 24, and Arif, 18, were trapped underneath the rubble after the wall of their house came down. When they were pulled out, Arif and Karima Bibi had died. Allah Wasai was taken to a hospital, where she died a few hours later. Her husband, Jam Allah Bakhsh, later said that he had been aware of some cracks in the wall, but did not have the means to repair it.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 26^th, 2012.