6 hurt as house collapses

Published November 25, 2012

PESHAWAR, Nov 24: Six people, including two children, were injured when a house collapsed at Mohalla Jogan Shah in old city of Peshawar on Saturday evening.

An official of the Shah Qabool police station said that the building owned by one Ijaz Khan caved in when its main rafter broke all of a sudden.

He said that the people had been recovered by the workers of Rescue 1122 after hectic efforts and were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital. Two of the people, he said were seriously injured.

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