A fire caused by an electrical short circuit killed six
siblings as they slept in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday,
police said.
The fire broke out in the early morning at a two-storey
house in the Shad Bagh area of Lahore while the family was asleep, local police
station official Mohammad Basharat told AFP.
“When rescue services arrived, all six children, three boys
and three girls, were found dead,” Basharat said.
The mother was rescued alive but wounded and has been
hospitalised, he said, adding that the father was not at home when the fire
broke out.
Lahore’s senior administration official Mohammad Usman
confirmed the incident and said that the victims were between seven and 16
years old.
Three of the children suffocated, he said, while the other
three died of their burns.
Lahore is the second largest city of Pakistan and capital of
the politically influential wheat bowl province of Punjab.
In December last year a fire erupted in a busy market in
Lahore that killed 13 people.
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