Six siblings were today charred to death after a fire gutted their house in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.
The fire erupted due to an electric short-circuit, police officials said, citing initial investigations.
Five sisters and a brother were burnt to death while they were asleep, officials were quoted as saying by Dawn news.
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Hamish Gul, the father of the deceased and a resident of Dogdara, told police that his two other family members sustained burn injuries.
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