Pakistan: Eight children died in sand dune collapse incident

According to ARY News on Friday, a sand dune collapse incident in Pakistan’s Martung Khas, Shangla district, claimed the lives of eight youngsters in all.
According to the details, the kids were playing cricket when the sand dune fell. Five people were first declared dead, and five more were turned up buried in the sand. But while one youngster is still hidden beneath the sand dune, the rescue team pronounced eight children dead. Furthermore, a search operation is underway for the missing children, according to ARY News.
Meanwhile, in May, in the Achro Thar area of Sindh’s Sanghar district, four children were burnt to death in a fire at their house.
According to rescue sources, the children who died in the ‘deadly house fire’ were siblings while their father sustained burn injuries.
Upon receiving the information, the rescue team and police reached the spot and shifted the bodies and injured persons to the hospital for medical treatment.
In the tragic accident, household goods and several goats were also burnt, reported ARY News.
A similar incident was seen in March, where ten members of a family, including a woman, her mother-in-law, five daughters and three sons died in a house fire in the Pattan area of Lower Kohistan, Pakistan based The News International newspaper reported.
District Kohistan, also called Abasin Kohistan or Indus Kohistan, is an administrative district within Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The fire, which had reportedly broken out from a lantern, ripped through the multi-room wooden house of Mohammad Nawab and the adjacent cattle pen at about 4 am on Friday, according to The News International.
Locals who rushed to the spot retrieved the buried family members and shifted them to a nearby hospital where the doctors pronounced all of them dead.
In January, six of a family including children were burnt to death in a fire at their house in Quetta, reported ARY News. Six members of a household, including children, died as a result of a gas leak in Quetta’s Satellite Town, according to rescue sources.
According to ARY News, the fire started after the family turned on the heater to combat the chilly weather. However, the gas leak caused the home to blow up.