LAHORE, Aug 17: A two-and-a-half-year-old boy was killed and his two minor sisters were injured when the roof of their single-storey house collapsed near Bagrian Chowk in Green Town here on Wednesday.

Rescue 1122 personnel said the victims were asleep at the time of the incident.

Injured Awais and his sisters Sidra, 6, and Maryam, 9, were ferried to Jinnah Hospital with multiple injuries where Awais was pronounced dead.

Raees Ahmad, father of the children, told rescuers that the roof was being repaired after the seepage due to recent rains.

ACCIDENT: A 25-year-old girl was killed and her two brothers were injured in an accident on Bund Road in Sanda here on Wednesday.

The police said Ishaq of Kala Khatai Road was going along with his brother, Rehman, and sister Nazia on a motorcycle when a pick-up hit them near New Khan Bus Stand.

The driver fled the scene while the injured were rushed to a nearby hospital where Nazia died.

FIRE: A railway coach caught fire under mysterious circumstances at the Cantonment railway station here on Wednesday.

Railway police said the fire erupted in one of the obsolete coaches parked at the railway station.

The police suspected someone might have thrown a burning cigarette on the garbage lying in the coach which led to the fire.

Rescue 1122 personnel brought the fire under control.