Heroic death: Girl electrocuted, two hospitalised

Maria Bibi, 11 was putting clothes on wire when it became live and she received an electric shock.

ZAHIRPUR: A girl died while two of her sisters were hospitalised on Saturday after they received electric shock. Maria Bibi, 11, a resident of Khudadad Colony, was putting clothes on wire when it became live and she received an electric shock. When her older sister, Nusrat Bibi, 19, tried to pull her away, she also received an electric shock. Then the third sister Afia Bibi, 16, broke the electricity wire to save them but received a fatal shock. Maria Bibi and Nusrat Bibi were taken to the District Headquarters hospital for treatment while Afia died on the spot. Doctors said that the girls were in a critical condition.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 16^th, 2012.