House fire in Peshawar’s Tehkal Payan kills six family members, including four children

Pakistan House Fire: Six Family Members, Four Children Killed In Peshawar Blaze

Six members of a family, including four children, were killed after a massive fire swept through a house in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday, rescue officials said.The incident took place in the Tehkal Payan area of Peshawar. According to Rescue 1122, the fire broke out in a residential house and spread rapidly, trapping the occupants inside, PTI reports.پشاور، تہکال پایان میں افسوسناک حادثہگھر میں آتشزدگی سے 6 افراد جاں بحق، ریسکیو pic.twitter.com/Q35WOgeec5— Arif Ikram Qazi (@QaziArifIkram) July 16, 2026 Victims found after search operationAfter bringing the blaze under control, rescue teams carried out a search operation and recovered the bodies of all six victims from a room in the house.Officials said the fire apparently started in an area where furniture, foam materials and other household items were stored. The highly combustible materials caused the flames and thick smoke to spread quickly through the building.Also Watch:Investigation underwayPreliminary findings suggest the victims died of suffocation caused by dense smoke and the intense heat generated by the fire, rescue authorities said.Indian National Stabbed 15 Times In Utah Mall In Suspected Hate CrimeThe exact cause of the fire has not yet been determined. Authorities have launched an investigation, while forensic experts and other relevant agencies are collecting evidence to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident.Rescue officials identified the deceased as 55-year-old Siraj, his 40-year-old wife and their four children.

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House fire kills family of 6 in Peshawar: Rescue 1122

PESHAWAR: A house fire in the Tehkal Payan area of Peshawar killed a couple and their four children on Thursday, Rescue 1122 said. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Rescue 1122 spokesperson Bilal Ahmed Faizi told Dawn that the rescue service received the report of the fire at around 2:30am. After reaching the site of the incident, it took the rescue team 45 minutes to bring the fire under control. The team recovered the bodies of six people from a room during its search operation. These included a husband, wife and their four children — three girls aged 11, nine, and three years, and a four-year-old boy. The man was a local worker of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Fazl (JUI-F), according to a statement issued by the party about the incident. According to Faizi, the fire apparently started in a storage area, where furniture and mattresses were kept and spread to other parts of the residential house. However, he said that the blaze was so intense that the family was likely unable to leave the single room they were staying in. The spokesperson noted that the children’s bodies were not burnt, which indicated that they died due to the intense heat and smoke generated by the fire. It is not immediately clear what caused the fire, he added. Across Pakistan, fires frequently break out in residential, commercial and industrial buildings due to crumbling infrastructure, weak enforcement of safety regulations and widespread negligence. In March, a woman and her two children died due to suffocation after a fire erupted in their house in Hyderabad. In January, a woman and five children lost their lives in two incidents of house fires in Punjab. In one incident in the district of Layyah, three sleeping girls, including a one-and-a-half-year-old, were caught in a fire that quickly engulfed the entire room. In the second incident, occurring in Pakpattan district’s Arifwala, two infants and their mother died, while their father suffered burns when their house caught fire because of gas leakage.

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