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Three people, including a woman and a child, were killed after the roof of a dilapidated house collapsed in Lahore’s Akbari Mandi area on Wednesday.

Three students of a local seminary in Kadhar, Mandi Bahauddin, tragically lost their lives after consuming a suspected poisonous drink, police reported.

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Three tourists lost their lives on Friday after they were buried under a glacial slide in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mansehra district, according to officials. Mansehra Rescue 1122 spokesperson Amir Khadam Khan told Dawn.com that the incident occurred near Sohni Waterfall in the Naran area. “[The] tourists, hailing from Lahore, were taking selfies near the glacier when it slid down, burying them underneath.” He added that the bodies of the tourists were recovered from the glacier and moved to a nearby hospital, where they were identified as 35-year-old Mohammad Tahir, 22-year-old Mohammad Tayyab, and 13-year-old Abubakar. Adviser to Chief Minister KP on Tourism, Zahid Chanze,b extended his condolences to the bereaved families and said, “Arrangements were being made to dispatch the bodies to Lahore.” In a statement, he urged tourists to avoid taking selfies near dangerous spots and glaciers, saying glaciers were rapidly melting due to the hot weather. He also said that they would launch a campaign across the provinc...

Bahawalpur - Three people lost their lives on Thursday due to intense heat wave in Bahawalpur.

Three children and an adult died Thursday when a fire broke out in a 13-storey apartment block in Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, local officials said. Diyarbakır Governor Murat Zorluoglu said the fire began around 6:30 pm (1530 GMT) on the eve of Turkey’s Eid al-Adha celebrations. “Seventeen wounded people were transferred […]

Three people drowned in a canal in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Malakand district on Thursday, while a body was discovered in a river in Upper Dir in a separate incident, rescue officials told said. Rescue 1122 official Nasar Khan told Dawn.com that four people, including a minor, were bathing in the canal to cool off amid intense heat. “All four people were recovered from the canal by divers, but three of them had drowned,” Nasar said. “One person was still alive and we transported him to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Dargai.” The official added that local residents aided rescuers in recovering the victims’ bodies. Rescue 1122 Malakand identified the deceased as 32-year-old Alamzeb, 26-year-old Mohammad Bilal and 6-year-old Arman Khan, while the survivor was identified as 17-year-old Salman Khan. Meanwhile, in a separate incident, Ibrahim Khan, a spokesperson for Rescue 1122 in Upper Dir, told Dawn.com that rescuers recovered the body of a seminary student who drowned in a river in the district’s Gandigar area. “T...

QUETTA - Three people including a policeman sustained injuries when terrorists riding on motorcycle hurled hand grenade at them at Eastern Bypass near Bakra Market area of Quetta on Monday.

Three wanted terrorists were killed during a fierce gun battle with the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in Mianwali, while six of their accomplices managed to escape, a CTD spokesperson confirmed.

Three wanted terrorists were killed in a fierce gun battle with the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in Mianwali, Punjab, late Thursday night, while six other suspects managed to flee the scene, authorities confirmed.

A family suffered from health problems after consuming food believed to be contaminated, resulting in the death of three siblings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera district, police said on Monday. Nowshera police spokesperson Turk Ali Shah told Dawn.com, “The family had consumed Mithai [sweets] with tea at night, after which their condition deteriorated.” “Three siblings have died after consuming poisonous food. Their mother was in critical condition,” he added. He said that the family were shifted to the Qazi Hussain Ahmad Medical Complex, where the siblings — 8-year-old Maryam, 6-year-old Hareem and 4-year-old Muhammad Yaman — were pronounced dead. “The mother is undergoing treatment at the hospital,” Shah continued. The police lodged an inquiry report on the complaint of Bakht Sher, the children’s father, the spokesperson said, adding that an investigation was underway to ascertain the cause of the deaths. In April, three children lost their lives while five others were in critical condition after having “p...

UPPSALA: Three people were killed in a shooting in the Swedish city of Uppsala on Tuesday, and a murder investigation has been launched, police said. Police are searching for one suspected perpetrator, news agency TT reported. Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer said the Justice Ministry was in close contact with the police and that it […]