A hotel, consisting of 50 rooms, was reduced to ashes after fire ripped through Kaghan Bazaar in Mansehra on Thursday morning.However, all people present inside the hotel at the time of the fire were safely evacuated.Fire brigades and locals were busy preventing the fire from spreading further till last reports came in.On Tuesday, a woman and her four-year-old daughter were burnt to death after a fire erupted in their house due to an electric short-circuit in Khairpur.

The incident took place in the town of Luqman, near the Khairpur railway station. Officials at the B-Section police station identified the victims as Sumaira Khatoon and her four-year-old daughter, Sharifan. The house was completely gutted until firefighters reached there.

Residents of the area said that they informed the fire brigade team, but they failed to reach the spot timely. Police and rescue workers took out the charred bodies from inside the house and shifted them to the Khairpur Civil Hospital for a postmortem examination.The bodies were later handed over to the heirs.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)