SANGHAR: Burn victim dies

Published April 12, 2003

SANGHAR, April 11: One of the burn victims, Sawan Halepoto, succumbed to his burn injuries in the hospital on Thursday.

He had received serious burn injuries during a fire at the Qaim Makrani village on Wednesday in which some 200 houses had been gutted.

The villagers alleged that high power transmission wires over the village caused the fire.

KILLED: A man killed his wife, Maraz Gul, 65, in the Khair Mohammad Mari village, near Tando Adam, about 35 kms from here, on Thursday.

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