Seven minor siblings die as truck rams into a house

JHANG: Seven minors died and their parents and two siblings injured when a truck rammed into their one-room house of a labourer at Ring Road.

Rescue sources said a truck loaded with vegetables went out of control and rammed into the house of Rizwan, where his family was sleeping. As a result, the one-room house turned into rubble and seven minor siblings were killed.

Labourer Rizwan, his wife and two children were rescued and shifted to district headquarters hospital.

Police have taken truck driver and two others into custody.