House roof collapse kills three children in Sialkot

SIALKOT: Three teen-aged sisters and brother died and one girl child was injured in a house roof collapse in the outskirt village here, Geo News reported on Sunday morning.

Rescue sources told four sisters and brother—Khalid, 10, Zainab, 6, Amina, 5 and Zulekha, 3 were buried under the debris as the mud roof of their house collapsed in the outskirt village Khokhar here.

Rescue team reaching the site of incident started the relief work, however, Khalid, Amina and Zainab could not be saved, while the wounded Zulekha, 3 was retrieved from the debris, who was shifted to the District Headquarter Hospital.

Rescue sources said that the incident occurred due to dilapidated condition of the roof.