Six dead as rockslide hits house in Ziarat

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ZIARAT: Six members of a family, including five children, were killed after rockslide hit a house in Zindah Pir Kali Syed Abad area of Ziarat in the wee hours of Monday.

According to Deputy Commissioner Azim Jan Dumar, a woman and her five children were killed when a rockslide hit their house in Zinda Pir area. However, he said a two-year-old girl was luckily unhurt in the incident.

Soon after the incident, rescue teams reached the site and began rescue operations, retrieving six bodies from the debris.

The deceased have been identified as Qadeer, Ayub, Baseer, Naseeb and their mother, Bibi Hajra. The bodies were shifted to a nearby hospital.