LAHORE, Sept 3: Ten more people have died in Lahore and Sialkot in incidents of roof collapse and drowning as torrential rain continued to lash parts of central Punjab on Sunday.
Eight people, including six children, died when rain-soaked roofs of five houses collapsed in Lahore on Sunday.
The roof of Nazir’s house collapsed in Baba Farid Colony, Chungi Amar Siddhu, leaving six family members trapped under rubble. As a result, Nazir, his wife and four children — Irfan (3), Faisal (8) Asma (10) and Misbah (12) — were injured.
Their neighbours pulled them out of rubble and a Rescue 1122 team took them to a nearby hospital where Irfan, Faisal and Asma were pronounced dead.
Housewife Rehana and her two children, Asad (3) and Urooj (5) died when the roof of their house collapsed in Sharifpura. Her husband was injured.
In yet another incident of roof collapse on College Road in Township, Arslan (4), son of rickshaw driver Shaukat, died whereas his father, mother Nasreen and brothers Haider, Yasir and Qasim were injured.
In Shahdara, Hamida Bibi, 55, died in a similar mishap. In Baghbanpura, five members of a family were injured after the roof of their housed caved in on them.
Two brothers, Mehmood and Nazir, drowned in flooded Dek Nullah near Qila Kalarwala, Pasrur tehsil, Sialkot district, on Saturday night.
Several villages were flooded in Sialkot and Gujranwala by overflowing Chenab and Tavi rivers and seasonal drains.
