House Fire: Three children killed

Three minor children were burnt alive, their parents seriously injured in a house fire on the outskirts of Islamabad.

ISLAMABAD: Three minor children were burnt alive and their parents seriously injured in a house fire on the outskirts of Islamabad on Monday night. According to Muhammad Jahangir, the in-charge of Daman-e-Koh check-point, a man along with his family and three children were sleeping in their house in Talhar village on the Margalla Hills when the fire burning in their coal-fire stove spread and engulfed the house. The man and his wife were shifted to a hospital. A similar incident was reported in Rawalpindi last week, in which three people were killed.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, December 5^th, 2012.