LAHORE: Two people were killed Tuesday morning after the roof of a house collapsed in Lahore’s Samanabad.
According to the rescue officials, five people, including a seven-year-old girl and two men, have been rescued from the debris. Seventy-five-year-old Muhammad Shareef died in the accident.
As per the neighbours, one woman and two children are still trapped. An operation is under way to rescue them. Three families lived in the house on the upper floors of the building, while there were shops on the ground floor.
The teams also recovered two bodies from the debris,whereas search was ongoing to recover another two trapped in the building.
The dead persons were identified as Muhammad Sharif (75) and Riffat Bibi (45). The injured included– Mahnoor (20), Maryam (7), Waqas (30) and Awais (20), Fazal (20),Asma (45) ,Shahzaib (20).
