Bakery fire kills five people in Lower Dir

According to police, the incident occurred in Tehsil Timar Garah where electricity short circuit in a bakery provoked a fire, resulting deaths of five people.

All of the deceased were bakery workers. They were trapped inside the bakery when the blaze erupted.

Police suspected that the workers died of suffocation. They said electricity short circuit had erupted at bakery’s go-down.

Those died in the incident belonged to Azad Kashmir.