LAHORE: An elderly woman and her three minor grandchildren were killed on Thursday as a fire erupted in their Wahdat Colony house.

Rescue 1122 extinguished the fire and shifted the six injured to nearby hospital where four of them, including three children, were declared dead.

The incident took place in a three-marla single storey house in Wahdat Colony. The fire erupted in an open kitchen attached to a living room and flames engulfed other rooms.

The children were present in a room adjacent to the living room. As the fire engulfed the living room, the children were trapped.

The grandmother of the children rushed to the room, shifted the kids to an attached bathroom and locked it.

Two other women - the victims’ mother and a neighbour - also tried to reach the adjacent room but could not do so and both suffered burns.

Rescue 1122 recovered one-year-old Hanan, five-year-old Hadi, eight-year-old Abeera and their grandmother Rukhsana in an unconscious condition. The family members fainted due to suffocation which led to their death.

Published in Dawn, January 15th, 2021