HANGU: Four members of a family, including a couple and two children, were killed and another seriously injured when roof of a house collapsed due to rain here on Sunday morning.
Levies sources said that dilapidated roof of a house located in suburbs of Hangu suddenly came down after the area was lashed by heavy rain on Saturday-Sunday night.
Four including husband, wife and their two children died while another was injured in the incident.
The local people on a self-help basis pulled out the bodies and injured from the rubble and shifted them to hospital.
The Fata Disaster Management Authority (FDMA) has announced Rs300,000 each for the four who died in the incident.
FDMA Director General (DG) Mehmood Aslam Wazir expressing heartfelt grief and sorrow over the death of the four family members in the roof collapse said that we share the grief of the bereaved.
He said that nothing can be alternate of the human life, and the financial assistance was a symbol to express sympathies and assuring the victim family of standing with them in this critical time.
The FDMA DG directed the coordinator to prepare a report of the incident at earliest and submit it in the head office so that payment of the announced assistance to the victim family could be ensured.
