Boys killed as wall of house collapses

MANSEHRA: Two minor boys were killed and a girl sustained injuries when the exterior wall of a house collapsed in the Pakhwal Chowk area here on Thursday.

“The three kids were playing in the street when the wall of a house collapsed and buried all of them under the rubble,” Rescue 1122 sources said. 

Abu Bakar, 6, his friend Mohammad Sufiyan, 5, and a minor girl were playing in the street when the outer wall of a mud-house collapsed and fell on them. The locals rushed to the spot, retrieved all three and shifted them to a nearby health facility where doctors pronounced the two boys dead.