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Five killed in Sukkur incidents

By Imtiaz Hussain
April 09, 2019

SUKKUR: A man and three children, including two siblings, were killed on Monday in various incidents of fire eruption and electrocution that also demolished slum structures, killing livestock in Nawabshah and Khairpur respectively. Two siblings identified as four years old Veero and three years old Gauri were killed in a fire that broke out in the slum structures and burnt all the household of surrounding area. The police shifted the bodies to local hospital and started investigation to determine the reason of fire. In another incident, a three-year-old girl was burnt alive when fire engulfed houses in village Agra in Khairpur on Monday. The reports said fire broke out from a kitchen that engulfed the neighbouring houses quickly at Agra village in Khairpur, while a three-year-old girl Munawara was burnt alive. In another incident in Kandhkot, a young man identified as Noor-ul-Haq Khoso was electrocuted, when 11000KV line at Jholi Lal Chowk suddenly fell on him.