Six of a family suffocate to death in Hangu house fire

HANGU: At least six members of a family suffocated to death after a fire broke out in their house in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Hangu, rescue officials said on Tuesday.

They relayed that the gas accumulated in the room where they were sleeping caused the fire.

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The victims include a couple and their four children, the officials said. Their bodies were shifted to a nearby hospital for medico-legal formalities.

On Sunday, two elderly women were burnt to death after a fire broke out in a house in Lahore.

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Rescue sources said that the fire broke out in the house near Lahore’s College Road Township in which two women lost their lives in the incident.