SHIKARPUR: A fire broke out in heaps of garbage due to a severe dust storm which claimed the life of an eight year old girl identified as Sharmeen daughter of Habib Machi in village Dino Machi, in the limits of Stuart Ganj Police Station. She sustained grave burns and injuries and was instantly moved to Civil Hospital Shikarpur for treatment, but she succumbed to her injuries. In Ghari Yasin, at least 4 shops, 3 godowns burnt to ashes at Dakhan Nako at Garhi Yasin tehsil of district Shikarpur when a fire erupted from heaps of garbage due to a dust storm and engulfed the godown of Ram Chand, Nisar Shah, Haji Rafique Odho, Manzoor Solangi, and others which was extinguished by fire fighters with the help of army officials, but all the valuables were reduced to ashes. After seeing the huge loss Nisar Shah, the owner of a godown, fell unconscious and he was shifted to nearby hospital for medical treatment. Major Muhammad Usman and other officials including Mukhtiarkar, tehsil Nazim Agha Shuja-ul-uddin Khan Pathan and others also rushed on the spot and expressed their sympathies with affected shop and godown owners. In Khanpur, a fire erupted in a house and engulfed three other adjacent houses of Muhammad Ameen, Imdad Ali, Mureed Hussain, and Muhammad Arab all of the Shar caste at village Godho Shar in Khanpur tehsil of Shikarpur district, which resulted in heavy losses as all the valuables which were kept in the houses were reduced to ashes. Meanwhile, in Thull Town, tehsil of Jacobabad district, fire engulfed eight houses of Jaffari community persons at village Fazalabad, in the limits of B-Section Police Station, late the other day. Meanwhile in same town in Thull, an explosion took place due to a gas leakage in the house of Abdul Qadeer, said to be an army official, sustained 70 per cent burn injuries and his aunt sustained 80 per cent burn injuries while due to heavy explosion the roof of the room was damaged.