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OKARA: Two children were burnt alive when a fire engulfed a makeshift hut in the river Ravi bed on Saturday evening.
According to police, Falak Sher, a resident of Shirin Wattooan village near Gogera, had cultivated watermelons in the dry riverbed and was living there in a makeshift hut along with his wife Zahida, daughter Alka Bibi (4) and two-year-old son Shah Zeb.
On Saturday evening, when Falak Sher and his wife were in the fields, a fire broke out in the hut that burnt the both minors.
Published in Dawn, April 18th, 2016
