Six people died and five others were hurt when a roof fell in on a house in Shabqadar, in Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, early on Sunday, January 4, 2026. A woman and her three daughters were among the dead, police said.
The dead and injured were largely guests who had come for a wedding set for that evening. The roof came down at around 4am, and neighbours rushed to the site to pull out the bodies and the injured before Rescue 1122 teams reached the scene and moved everyone to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Shabqadar.
The account indicates a familiar pattern. Roof collapses across Pakistan are largely attributed to substandard construction, poor-quality materials and weak enforcement of building codes, with ageing structures and illegal extensions adding to the risk.
“The provincial government extends its sympathies and condolences to the families of the deceased,” said Shafi Jan, adviser to the chief minister on information.
In a similar incident last November, a family of five, four of them children, died when a roof came down in Pabbi, in Nowshera district.
Sources
- Six family members, including woman and three daughters killed Charsadda roof collapse – Pakistan Today
- At least six killed in roof collapse in Pakistan’s northwest
