weather in provinces
MANSEHRA/CHITRAL/PESHAWAR/LAHORE/PAKPATTAN: Over a dozen lives have been lost amid the recent heavy rains and flooding in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa districts within the last 48 hours.
Rescue sources, on Sunday, reported the death of at least three individuals due to electrocution incidents in Pakpattan. Among them were Waqas and Ramzan, residents of Purani Sabzi Mandi and Arifawala, who tragically died while bathing.
Additionally, a two-year-old baby, Ayesha, was fatally electrocuted after she touched an electric wire in the Sikandar Chowk area.
KP devastations
Five people lost their lives, while more than a dozen were injured in Mansehra and Chitral districts of KP. The heavy monsoon rains caused destruction, washing away houses and roads in the impacted areas.
Hafeezur Rehman, the head of Rescue 1122 in Mansehra, told journalists about the loss of lives due to the rain-triggered flooding in the district.
"Five people have been killed and over a dozen injured and houses collapsed. And many arteries have been blocked in the district. Our teams are active all around as the fresh rain spell triggered large-scale devastation," he said.
Heavy rain in Mansehra, which began late Friday night, continued intermittently the entire next day and destroyed several houses and blocked roads.
The house of an Afghan national, Samiullah, collapsed on the Chinar Road in the district's Thakra area, burying six members of his family under the rubble who were shifted to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital by Rescue 1122 officials. The doctors, however, pronounced Samiullah's wife and son dead, while the rest were hospitalised.
Ajwa Bibi, 12, and her younger brother Mohammad Umar were buried alive when their house collapsed in the Dehri area of Shinkiari. The locals and Rescue 1122 officials shifted them to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital after retrieving them from the rubble, where doctors pronounced Ajwa Bibi dead.
The family members of Mohammad Qadeer were also buried alive under the debris when their house collapsed in the Lohar Banda area in the heart of Mansehra city. The locals shifted them to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, where a doctor pronounced Mohammad Hussain, 9, dead while four members of his family were hospitalised.
The rescuers also fished out a body of an unknown man who had drowned in a stream following rains in the Chitta Batta area.
Two pickup vehicles were also washed away in the flood waters in the Dugai stream in Mansehra's Oghi. According to eyewitnesses, hundreds of passengers travelling between Oghi and the neighbouring Torghar district were stuck on both sides of the road after an incomplete bridge washed away in last year’s flood.
The houses also collapsed in Safada and other areas in the district. The roads were also blocked in Safada village, Siran Valley, Konsh Valley and Kaghan Valley owing to the land and mudslides. The rain, which also hit Upper Kohistan, Lower Kohistan, Kolai-Palas and Torghar districts, continued intermittently the entire next day, but no fatality was reported from anywhere.