Elderly man's burnt body found in his house.

LAHORE -- The body of an elderly man was recovered from a room of his house after it was gutted in a fire in Kahna area here on Friday.

According to the police, Mehdi Bakhsh, 90, was asleep in a room of his house at Kahna Nu. Early on Friday, his family members noticed dense smoke emitting from the room and alerted Rescue 1122. The rescuers found the charred body of the elderly man.

A Rescue 1122 spokesperson said the workers found a burnt gas heater and the body of the man.

Quoting initial inquiry, a police official said it seemed the bed of the man caught fire from...

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