LANDIKOTAL:
Two minor children of Afghan repatriating families have lost their
lives while waiting at Torkham border all the Thursday night in a
freezing weather to cross into Afghanistan,sources said on Friday.
The sources said that two children, one-year-old Zarmeena and five-months-old Farmina Bibi, were on their way back with their families to Afghanistan from Azad Kashmir lost their lives before reaching to Afghanistan.
An official of the Landikotal administration told this scribe that the
ill-fated children and their families members had reached Torkham border
on Thursday night and were waiting to open the border and continue
their journey towards their destinations. He said they also asked the
Afghan counter parts to allow the repatriating families but they denied.
He said the chilly weather on the way from Azad Kashmir caused death of
the two infants. Later,the Afghan border authorities opened the border
and the aggrieved families along with the two dead bodies crossed the
border into Afghanistan.
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