Rain-related incidents leave four dead in Mansehra, Timergara

MANSEHRA/TIMERGARA: Four people, including two children, were killed and two others injured in rain-related incidents in Mansehra and Timergara districts.

It was learnt that flash floods triggered by heavy rain wreaked havoc as two people were killed in Mansehra.

Many houses also collapsed and roads got blocked because of landslides in the district. The heavy rains, which lashed the Hazara division, caused heavy floods in local rivers and streams as a result of which many houses were destroyed.

Mohammad Zeeshan was buried alive when the wall of a house collapsed in Upper Channia area in Mansehra. His body was retrieved by Rescue 1122.

Dozens of houses were inundated in Pano Dehri and adjacent localities because of the flooding water in a local stream. The residents spent the entire night under the open sky fearing flooding at a local nullah. “We retrieved the body of one Mohammad Farhan, 9, as his family members rushed out of their house but left him behind at the Pano Dehri area,” Abdullah Khan, the night shift in-charge of Rescue 1122 told reporters.

He said that the Kunhar River, Indus River, Siran River and local streams and nullahs were flooding at a level where local residents’ lives were in danger.

The Rescue 1122 teams rescued around 18 people, including women and children, trapped in heavy water in the city and its suburbs.

The Bootkhata steam, which flows in middle of the city, was heavily flooded and swept away many cars parked outside the houses in the Loharband and Nari Mohallahs and adjoining localities. The announcements were made from the local mosques on loudspeakers, calling people to come out to help families trapped in water. Many roads were also blocked in the Siran and Konsh valleys because of the landslide.

In Torghar, around six ferries anchored at Indus River bank in the Judbah sank during the flooding, hampering communication activities on Monday. Many roads including the main artery of the Darband-Thakot was also blocked because of the landslides.

In Timergara, two girls from the same family lost lives while a boy and his mother sustained injuries when the house of one Mohib Gul collapsed in Daro Maidan area after torrential early Monday morning, residents said. They said the house collapsed due to heavy rain, leaving Aleena, 8, and Marwa, 10, dead while Roman, 5, and his mother Umar Saida Bibi sustained injuries in the incident. The injured were rushed to Timergara Teaching Hospital where the condition of all the injured was stated to be stable.