LAHORE: A minor boy and his twin sister died from suffocation in an empty flour box in their house in Hanjarwal on Saturday.

The police said the siblings were playing on the roof of their house and later they were found dead in the flour box lying there.

The police said the children might have entered the box but failed to come out when the cover fell and shut the box.

The police handed over the bodies to the family after completing legal formalities.

Published in Dawn, May 19th, 2019