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4 injured in roof collapse
Jalandhar, July 11
Four members of a family were injured when the roof of their house at Nawa Pind in Kartarpur caved in on top of them while they were asleep late last night.
The injured, daily wage labourer Jagdish Kumar, wife Kulwinder Kaur and sons Vansh and Davinder, were immediately taken to the Civil Hospital, Jalandhar. Jagdish's nephew Harpreet said the incident occurred around 2 am. He said it was perhaps because due to the accumulation of The house whose roof collapsed at Nawa Pind in Kartarpur. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh rainwater on the weak, leaking roof that the incident occurred. Even electricity cables came down with the rubble and the family got miraculously saved from electrocution.

The house whose roof collapsed at Nawa Pind in Kartarpur. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh


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4 injured in roof collapse
Deepkamal Kaur
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, July 11
Four members of a family were injured when the roof of their house at Nawa Pind in Kartarpur caved in on top of them while they were asleep late last night.

The injured, daily wage labourer Jagdish Kumar, wife Kulwinder Kaur and sons Vansh and Davinder, were immediately taken to the Civil Hospital, Jalandhar.

Jagdish's nephew Harpreet said the incident occurred around 2 am. He said it was perhaps because due to the accumulation of rainwater on the weak, leaking roof that the incident occurred. Even electricity cables came down with the rubble and the family got miraculously saved from electrocution.

He said even the cot on which they had been lying got broken and younger son Davinder got pressed under it. The family was undergoing treatment at the emergency ward of the hospital.

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