Rescue workers recovered the bodies of five children, from one to 14 years old, and a 25-year-old woman from the wreckage of the house shared by two brothers and their families near the Pir Mitha Darbar shrine.
The fire started in a room with wood and plastic materials the brothers used to make screens for room coolers, District Police Officer Awais Ahmed said.
Three people were rushed to the hospital, Geo News reported.