LAHORE, Jan 7: A family miraculously survived a roof collapse on Sunday in Township in which four children received minor injuries. Reports said the roof of Allah Ditta’s single-room house suddenly collapsed at Kachi Abadi in C-I Block at 6pm when the family members, including Samina, 7, Shahida, 6, Zeenat, 5, and Zain, 4, were watching television.

Fortunately, no loss of life occurred while the children only received minor injuries.

The Township SHO said the roof collapsed when the old rod supporting it slipped. The injured were taken to the Jinnah Hospital for treatment.

FIRE: Two garment factories caught fire reportedly because of short-circuit in the city on Sunday causing loss of millions of rupees. However, no casualty was reported.

In the first incident, the fire erupted in a garment-manufacturing unit, owned by Khalid Irfan, situated near Rohi drain in Nishtar Colony at 5:45pm. The fire burnt stitched clothes, synthetic fibre and raw material worth millions of rupees, claimed the unit owner.

The reason behind the fire was stated to be a short-circuit.

The fire-brigade vehicles reached the spot after 40 minutes when some employees, area residents and police had already started extinguishing the fire. It took them three hours to extinguish the fire.

The Nishtar Colony DSP said the fire broke out at the first storey of the factory, which was closed for work, and gutted only manufactured material. However, the portion housing machines remained safe.

Similarly, a fire erupted in another garment factory owing to a short-circuit on Multan Road in the Hanjarwal area in wee hours of Sunday and gutted readymade garments and cloth worth hundreds of thousands of rupees.

The fire brigade extinguished the fire in a couple of hours.