At least two people died and seven others suffered burn injuries on Wednesday after a house in the Shareef Pura neighbourhood of Faisalabad caught fire due to an explosion of a laptop battery on Wednesday, rescue officials said.
According to the rescue officials, the house, located at the Satyana road, suffered the blaze as the exploded laptop battery was charging. The fire was put off later, they added.
At least nine people of the family, including five children and two women, residing in the house were shifted to the Allied Hospital following the ill-fated incident, said the rescue officials.
Meanwhile, the hospital sources said that two siblings, six-year-old Dua Fatima and nine-year-old Talha, succumbed to the burns, while seven others are receiving treatment.
Among the other injured, eight-year-old Iryan and Imran’s bodies were burnt 45 percent, three-year-old Ibrahim’s 70 percent, Nargis’s 72 percent, Rashida Bibi and Farhat’s 60 percent and Makki Raza’s 58 percent.
