Six member of two families including a woman and infant were burnt alive when a stock of mats caught fire due to carelessness of the passerbys in a village Bhatti near Shrine of Pir Mitha (Sanawan) in Muzaffargarh district some 80-km west of Multan on friday.Fire fighters are trying to put out the fire for the last six hours. DPO Muzaffargarh Awais Ahmed Malik said that someone threw a live cigarette on the heap of mats of grass .Resultantly it caught fire and flames appeared within no time. Consequently Six persons including a woman, a teeage girl and four minor children died. A Young girl Naureen (14)and her brother succumbed to burns in District Head Quarter Hospital Muzaffargarh. Rescue 1122's emergency officer Dr.Irshad Ahmed said that makeshift houses of labourers burnt to ashes abnd entire stock of mats and other products of grass burnt. Total six persons including a girl have died. SHO Police station Sanawan Amjad Khalid said that fire fighting team managed to putout fire after six hours hectic efforts.Those who died are identified as Hamid (8), Naureen(14) Hania (1.5)Arsalan (4) Amna (25) wife of Allah Wasaya ,her son Tahir Abbas while Imran's wife Haleema injured seriously.
