Four members of a family including a couple and two daughters died when the roof of a house collapsed due to heavy rain here on Wednesday, police said.

According to details, heavy downpour lashed different areas of Swabi on Tuesday-Wednesday night resultantly roof of a house located in Yar Hussain area caved in.

Four members of a family including husband, wife and their two one and half-year-old twin daughters died in the incident.

The local people on a self-help basis pulled out the bodies from the debris and shifted them to hospital.