MUZAFFARGARH: A woman owner of 12 goats died of cardiac arrest after a pack of stray dogs attacked and killed her goats before her eyes in Ali Pur tehsil of Muzaffargarh.

The incident took place in Deenpur area within the limits of Khairpur police station.

The dogs entered house of the woman, Zulekha Bibi, and killed the goats by biting them with teeth. Upon seeing them dead, Zulekha could not bear the loss and died of sudden cardiac arrest.

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Residents of the area held a protest against the administration’s incompetence to control population of stray dogs in the area.

On February 5, at least five coalminers had died and as many others wounded in a blast at a mine in a suburban area of Quetta, Sarra Gargi, Bol news had reported.

The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) had said the three of the injured were shifted to the Trauma Centre in Quetta for treatment. The reason of the blast was being ascertained, the PDMA had said.

Apparently, the blast occurred because of filling of gas in the mine, the rescue sources had said.