LAKKI MARWAT, March 14: Two children were killed, while their parents narrowly escaped, when roof of one Gul Khan’s house collapsed in village Ghaznikhel on late Thursday night. Gul Khan, his wife and two children were asleep when a roof of their house suddenly caved in due to breakage of a beam,” an eyewitness said.

He said that locals and the neighbourers rushed to the scene to rescue the inmates from the debris.

The eyewitness further told that Gul Khan and his wife were rescued but their two sons identified as Muhammad Ishfaq 4 and Ali Rehman 6 could not survive.

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