According to Express News, the roof of a house collapsed in North Waziristan’s Shawaal tehsil, leaving eight members of a family dead. Four women were among the deceased.
Frontier Corps personnel recovered bodies from under the rubble, after which they were shifted to a nearby hospital.
Locals informed officials that the house belonged to a man named Shakoor Khan and the deceased included his relatives, Sher Khan, Malik Rana, Najibullah, Shahidullah, Rehmatullah, Gul Kalama, Naila, Shad Bibi and others.
Six people died in a road crash when a passenger van caught fire on the Indus Highway, Express news reported.
The van was bound for Dera Ismail Khan caught fire after it collided with a truck. Among the passengers, 12 people also sustained critical injuries.
Police reported that the bodies have been shifted to a hospital and the identification process is underway.
