RAWALPINDI: Two girls were killed in separate incidents in the garrison city on Tuesday, police said.

In the first incident, eight-year-old Sadia, a resident of Bank Colony in Dhamial, was playing outside her house when she was knocked down by a water tanker, killing her on the spot.

Shortly after the incident happened, the emergency service Rescue 1122 staff reached the spot and shifted the body to the District Headquarters Hospital.

The tanker driver, however, managed to escape.

In the second incident, a young woman died after falling from the rooftop of a commercial building near Chandni Chowk.

Initial police report revealed that Imshal Amir, 22, was associated with a recruiting agency. The incident occurred when she went to the rooftop of the office building and suddenly fell on the ground.

The police are investigating the incident to ascertain the facts, which apparently seems to be an accident.

The body of the victim was shifted to a hospital by the police for postmortem.

Meanwhile, one of the burn victims, Sajjad Ahmad, a resident of Faisal Town, who was injured critically after being trapped in the fire that erupted in his house on Friday night, died in a local hospital on Tuesday.

Sajjad Ahmad was among the 13 victims who were injured after being trapped in the fire that erupted due to gas cylinder explosion.

Initially, the injured were shifted to Benazir Bhutto Hospital and subsequently were removed to the Holy Family Hospital as the BBH did not have the facility of a burn unit. Later, the critically injured were shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) Islamabad.

According to reports, the gas cylinder explosion took place in the house of Raja Sajjad Ahmad in Faisal Colony when the inmates were shifting households. Panic and fear gripped the area on hearing the sound of a huge explosion at night as residents of the locality came out of their homes to know what had happened.

The neighbours shifted the victims to different hospitals before the police and emergency services staff reached the scene of the explosion.

Published in Dawn, January 15th, 2025