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Tragedy in Shangla: Six Children of Same Family Killed in Early Morning Mud House Roof Collapse
Six children from the same family lost their lives and another was critically injured early Tuesday morning after the mud roof of their house caved in while they slept in Shangla's Alpuri tehsil. Rescue 1122 cleared the debris within an hour, marking yet another tragic infrastructure failure in rural KP following a similar fatal collapse in Charsadda last month.
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by News Desk
2026-06-02
Tragedy in Shangla: Six Children of Same Family Killed in Early Morning Mud House Roof Collapse

Detailed Report

  • The Early Morning Collapse: A devastating structural collapse in the early hours of Tuesday morning has claimed the lives of six young children from the same family in the Rahimabad Bassi area of Shangla district's Alpuri tehsil, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to Rescue 1122 emergency officials, the victims were completely caught off guard, as they were all fast asleep when the heavy mud and timber roof of their traditional house suddenly caved in on top of them.

  • The Emergency Response: Rescue 1122 Shangla Spokesperson Rasool Khan Sharif confirmed that emergency dispatch teams responded immediately after receiving the panic call from local residents. Rescuers initiated a rapid, hands-on rubble-clearance operation and managed to extricate all seven buried children within an hour. Despite their swift efforts, six of the children succumbed to massive trauma before or during extraction, while a seventh child was pulled out alive but remains in highly critical condition at a local medical facility.

The Pattern of Infrastructure Casualties: This catastrophic event underscores a deadly, ongoing trend across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's rural belts, where older mud-brick structures routinely fail under weather stress. Just last month, a strikingly similar structural failure occurred in the Prang Majoki area of Charsadda district, where three children were crushed to death and their parents left severely injured following a residential roof collapse.

Casualty Profile: Rahimabad Bassi Incident

Emergency services have officially documented the identities and ages of the young victims involved in the Alpuri tragedy:

Victim Name Age Legal / Medical Status
Nazira Bibi 14 Years Old Deceased
Umaira 12 Years Old Deceased
Samira Bibi 13 Years Old Deceased
Nayab 7 Years Old Deceased
Rizwanullah 5 Years Old Deceased
Haya Noor 5 Years Old Deceased
Marwa 11 Years Old Injured (Critical Condition)

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