PESHAWAR: A wedding celebration in Shabqadar, a tehsil of Charsadda district, turned into a tragic scene of mourning on Sunday after the roof of a house collapsed, killing six people and injuring five others.
The incident occurred in the Shabqadar area of Charsadda district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the roof of a room collapsed during a wedding ceremony at the house of a man named Fazal Dad in the locality of Chhat Mitha Khairabad, according to official sources. Officials said that wedding guests were trapped under the debris after the roof collapsed.
Rescue sources added that four members of the same family, including five young girls, died on the spot. The accident claimed six lives, while several others were injured.
The police officials said most of the victims were reported to be wedding guests who had travelled to the area to attend the wedding ceremony. The bodies of the deceased and the injured were rushed to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Shabqadar, where several of the injured were said to be in critical condition.
Police and rescue teams have started collecting further details of the incident, and after necessary legal formalities, the bodies were handed over to the heirs.
Authorities also launched an investigation into the cause of the collapse, while local officials expressed grief over the loss of lives.
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