Couple, two kids killed as electricity wire falls on bull-cart

LODHRAN-A four members family, including a couple and their two minor children - a boy and girl - were killed after a high voltage electricity wire fell upon while riding a bull-cart them here on Sunday.
According to Rescue 1122 officials, Ghulam Yaseen, resident of Hasilwala, Haveli Nasir Khan, Kahror Pacca, along with his wife Sughra Bibi, six-year-old son Iqbal, nine-year-old daughter Alisha and seven-year-old nephew Rizwan was going somewhere on a bull-cart. All of sudden a high tension electricity wire fell on them. As a result, Yaseen, his wife, daughter and son died on the spot while his nephew Rizwan survived the incident unhurt.
The bull-cart also reduced to ashes in the incident. Firefighters of the Rescue-1122 rushed to the spot and put off the fire.
Rescuers shifted the dead bodies to a nearby hospital.
According to police, the bodies were handed over to the heirs after legal formalities at the hospital.

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