KURRAM: Eight people, mostly women and children, died and at least 30 received injuries when a two-storey mud house collapsed during a marriage ceremony in Peewar Ghundikhel village near the Afghan border here on Wednesday.

The police and locals said the marriage ceremony of a former army official’s son was in progress when the house caved in. As a result, women and children, who had gathered in the house, came under the debris.

The locals immediately recovered bodies of eight women and children from the wreckage. They also pulled out at least 30 women and children from the debris in injured condition.

The police and Rescue 1122 personnel also reached the spot and shifted the dead and the injured to hospital.

Kurram deputy commissioner Dr Afaq Wazir told mediapersons that the government would extend financial assistance to the families of the victims. He said the FDMA had also been directed to extend help to the affected families.

Published in Dawn, November 19th, 2020