OKARA: Five people including a woman and two children were killed as the roof of a house collapsed in Okara on Monday, ARY News reported, citing rescue sources.
The incident was reported near Gamber Adda at National Highway, where a roof of a house collapsed. Five people were trapped in the debris.
Getting information, the rescue teams reached the spot and retrieved dead bodies from the rubble. The bodies of five people including a woman and two children were moved to the hospital.
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Earlier in February, at least three persons had lost their lives and five others wounded when the roof of a madrassah collapsed in Lahore.
The incident had taken place in Lahore’s Chungi Amar Sadhu area where three persons died including 50-year-old Karim, 50-year-old Irshad and 23-year-old Nadeem. Rescue officials rushed to the scene immediately and shifted the affected people to a nearby hospital.
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