Six, including five children, burned to death in Pakistan

Six persons of the same family, including five children, were burned to death and three others injured when their house caught fire today in Pakistan's Punjab province.

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.