QUETTA – Six members of a family, including mother and five children, were killed after rockslide hit a house in Zindah Pir Kali Syed Abad area of Ziarat in the wee hours of Monday.
The landslide was triggered by torrential rains in the southwestern province of Balochistan.
Deputy Commissioner Azim Jan Dumar told local media that a woman and her five children were killed when a rockslide hit their house in Zinda Pir area. However, he added, a two-year-old girl miraculously escaped in the incident.
Soon after the incident, rescue teams reached the site and began rescue operations, retrieving six bodies from the debris.
The deceased have been identified as Qadeer, Ayub, Baseer, Naseeb and their mother, Bibi Hajra. The bodies were shifted to a nearby hospital.
