Seven die in Bajaur rain-related incidents

KHAR: Seven people were killed and five others sustained injuries in rain-related incidents in various places in Bajaur Agency on Saturday.

Tribal sources said that five people died and another five were injured when the roof of a seminary collapsed in Makha area in Mamond tehsil.

Soon after the incident, the officials of the political administration and Pakistan Army soldiers and local people rushed to the spot and pulled out the dead and injured from the rubble.

The dead were identified as Salahuddin, Hazrat Gul, Khalid, Wajid and Sadiq.

It couldn’t be confirmed whether the dead were seminary students or other people.

Two of the five injured were stated to be in a critical condition and were taken to a hospital in Peshawar.

Also, the wife of one Dawai Khan was killed in a wall collapse in Niag area in Mamond.

In Khar tehsil, a man identified as Rehmanuddin was also killed in a wall collapse incident in Kosar area.

Meanwhile, Assistant Political Agent of Khar Arif Khan and Assistant Political Agent of Nawagai Anwarul Haq visited the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Khar to inquire after the health of the injured.

In Nowshehra, one person, Sartaj, 40, was killed in roof collapse incident in Mohallah Gulabad.

In Mardan, one Ishaq, resident of Hoti, was killed when a signboard fell on him near police station petrol pump on main road.

Similarly, due to heavy rain and gusty winds, a tree fell on a vehicle in Yakhtangi area of Alpuri Tehsil in Shangla district. Amir Bustan, resident of Chowga, died on spot and 5 others were injured

One woman was killed when the roof of a house collapsed in Amrozai area in Safi tehsil.

Shahid Hussain Yousafzai in Lower Dir adds: Four women were killed and seven persons injured when a Rawalpindi-bound coaster collided with the army truck at Shago Kas area near Zulam Pul in Lower Dir district late on Saturday, police and hospital sources said.

They said the coaster, which was on way to Rawalpindi from Chitral, rammed into the army truck at Shago Kas, some five kilometres from Timergara city.

As a result, four women died on the spot and seven persons sustained injuries.

The dead were identified as wife of Muhammad Ashraf of Abbottabad, wife of Abdul Sattar, Gujrat, daughter of Zar Alam and wife of Gulzar Khan from Chitral.

The injured were rushed to District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital Timergara where condition of some of the injured is stated to be critical.

Heavy downpour and windstorm and fog may have caused the accident.