Family of seven burn in Rawalpindi house fire

Fire took away husband and wife along with five children

RAWALPINDI: A family of seven burned to death Wednesday when a fire broke out in their home due to a short circuit, in Rawalpindi's Chaklala Scheme-III, Express News reported.  

According to Radio Pakistan fire erupted in the double-storey house while Shaukat Cheema, 35 and his wife Aisha, 32 were asleep in the house with their five young children.

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Excessive suffocation subsequently lead to the death of all seven family members. The eldest of the children, Hasan, was 14, while Fatima being the youngest was four years old.

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Rescue teams and the Airport police arrived at the scene and immediately shifted the family to District Headquarters Hospital.

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All members of the family were pronounced dead at the hospital.