Natural disaster: Avalanche kills two siblings

SWAT: A brother and sister were crushed to death in a colossal landslide in Dabargey, Madyan valley late evening on Wednesday. According to local sources, Ismaeel and Parveen, children of Humayun, were playing near an under-construction house at the foot of a hill in Dabargey village. A massive avalanche buried them both. Locals rushed to the spot and dug them out but the children were found dead. Ismaeel and Parveen were buried at a local graveyard.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 24^th, 2013.