SUKKUR: A young boy and his sister drowned in a pond and two small sisters fell into a water channel to their death in different areas near Shikarpur on Sunday.

Police said that villagers took out bodies of Abdul Wahab, 5, and his sister Kaz Bano, 7, from the pond in Muhammad Azeem Chandio village. They might have slipped and fallen into the pond while playing on its bank, said family members.

Police said that in another incident two sisters identified as Kanwal, 7, and Zareena, 8, downed in a water channel in Muhammad Umar Khoso village.

The girls’ relatives took out the bodies from the channel and brought them to nearby hospital where doctors declared them dead and handed them back the bodies after completing medico-legal formalities.

Teenage boy electrocuted

A 16-year-old boy was electrocuted when he switched on an electrified pumping machine at home, said police officials.

They said that when Nadir Ali Buriro suffered the electric shock, he fell unconscious. The family took him to the Sukkur Civil Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2022