KASUR: Two minor brothers were burnt alive on Sunday, while their third sibling suffered severe burns when the hut of a gypsy family caught fire at Mahalam village in Ganda Singh police station limits.

According to Rescue 1122 officials, a gypsy man, Rafiq and his wife lived in a hut, along with their three minor sons – five-month-old Hamza, Ahmed (3) and Abdullah, (2) – at Mahalam village.

On Sunday, the couple was out for work, while their children were asleep in the hut, when it caught fire.

On being informed of the fire, a Rescue 1122 team reached the spot, extinguished the fire with the help of locals and rescued one of the children, Abdullah, who suffered severe burns.

During the search for survivors, the rescuers found torched bodies of the remaining children in the burnt hut.

The injured child was shifted to the district headquarters hospital where his condition is said to be critical.

The police said the cause of the fire could not be ascertained so far and they were looking into the matter.

Published in Dawn, April 11th, 2022