BUNER: Two labourers were killed when the roof of a hujra collapsed after a geyser exploded in Totalai area of Buner district on Friday night.

Locals said that the victims, Aftab of Kass Korona and Gul Said of Totalai, who worked in the marble mines, were sleeping in a room in the hujra of village naib nazim Arshad Khan when the roof collapsed, burying them alive. They said the roof collapsed after a geyser exploded in the hujra.

The locals rushed to the spot soon after the incident and retrieved the two bodies from the debris. They were shifted to the civil hospital, Totalai, for carrying out legal formalities. The bodies were later handed over to the relatives.

The Totalai police said the roof collapsed due to a geyser explosion in the hujra.

Law enforcement agencies and security forces also reached the spot and collected the evidence to determine the nature of the blast.

Meanwhile, the Gagra police recovered body of a young Afghan and his motorcycle during a rescue operation after fire erupted in a tent in the gypsies’ temporary settlement in Swari area on Friday night.

According to witnesses, the locals and the police rushed to the tents of gypsies after fire broke out in a tent there. While extinguishing the fire, the police found human body parts in the ashes. On further search, the police recovered a body and a motorcycle from the burnt tent. Later, the body was identified as Ghazi Mohammad, an Afghan cloth dealer.

Published in Dawn, February 19th, 2017