SWAT/MANSEHRA/LOWER DIR: flash floods washed away over 490 houses, 50 hotels, 40 schools, 54 bridges, access roads, 200 river branches and scores of vehicles in Khazar and Malakand divisions of According to local authorities, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since August 25. on Saturday.
Swat administration reports damage of 233 houses, 41 schools, 50 hotels and 24 bridges at the flood. in area during last three days.
According to officials, flood waters also destroyed roads with a total length of 130 kilometers in area.
They said more over 1000 tourists stuck in Kalama and Bahrain areas evacuated by helicopter for safe return to appropriate areas.
results of people trapped in saved rivers
officials also reported that the administration has begun rehabilitation measures in district, while teams drained floodwaters and vaccinated livestock against illness.
Information secretary Arshad Khan said about 10 tons of food items was delivered to people in area.
The people of Calama feared more floods.
Frontier Works stated that this busy clearing the blocked part of Karakoram Highway in Mansehra area to restore traffic between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Inhabitants of disaster-hit Manoor, Mahandri and other areas of kagan valley complained about the delay in in start of relief activities.
The Lower Dir administration stated that the damaged part of Timergara Peshawar Road in Zulam area was refurbished prior to its partial opening for small vehicles. He said the river bank was full with boulders using heavy machinery.
Meanwhile, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations 1122 saved a life of man in a trap in kunai stream in Takatak area of Lower Dir and this of three in a trap in a building along bank of panjkora river in Zwall Baba area.
Abdur Rehman of Rescue Service 1122 reported during last in two days the organization saved 20 people from the overflowing Talash stream, three from the Panjkora river in Called Baba area, one from the creek Maidan, 12 from a. private hostel in Timergara, a teacher and three students from private college in Timergar and removed 10 bodies, including seven of childrentwo of women as well as one of man from the rubble of collapsed house roofs in different areas of area.
The district administration announced the rescue of two people stuck in Currum River in Bannu. He said two men stuck in river for four hours while crossing it for firewood.
Assistant Commissioner Syed Abrar Ali Shah led the rescue operation. team that displaced two men to the safe place.
Assistant Commissioner Lakki Marwat Shakeel Ahmad relayed over a compensation check for flood-hit family whose minor male member died in flash floods in A subdivision of the Bethanni tribe. He also distributed food and non-food items items them.
The AC stated that a detailed examination is being carried out out in in region evaluate flood losses and prepare a detailed report for quick compensation of victims.
He said that the administration also relocated nine families to government buildings and provided them with food and non-food items.
At the same time 90 people trapped in middle of indus river in Hund area were rescued, Deputy Commissioner Swabi Retired Captain Sanaulla in a social media message on Saturday.
He said he was stuck people including the elderly, children as well as women.
District of Columbia reports severe flooding in the Kabul River and said that many families had been evacuated from nearby areas. over fears of a rise in water level.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mahmoud Khan appointed primary and secondary education minister Shahram Khan Tarakai as government responsible person for relief activities in area.
Also in The next day, the head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, called on the relevant authorities ensure early evacuation of in people stuck in flood-hit space and provision of humanitarian goods.
He also turned to people to help out disaster victims in cash and kind.
During a visit to flood-hit Yarik, Mukim Shah, Pusha Bridge and other areas in Dera District Ismail Khan, head of JUI-F, told the provincial and central government should cooperate with each other and use all resources and government cars for relief and rehabilitation of families hit flash floods.
Meanwhile, the deputy leader of the PPP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Ahmed Karim Khan Kundi attended in rescue work in Budh village which was the worst hit flash floods.
Published in Dawn, August 28, 2022
