Casualties: At least 16 dead, over 100 injured in accidents during Eid

Rain, hail storms damage crops, infrastructure across the province


Our Correspondents/APP October 09, 2014

SWABI/ NOWSHERA/ HANGU/ KOHAT/ PESHAWAR/ UPPER DIR/ SHANGLA/ CHARSADDA/ DI KHAN:


At least 16 people died and more than 100 others were injured in accidents in different parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday and Wednesday. According to Rescue 1122 data, over 96 people in Peshawar and Mardan were provided medical treatment after accidents.


Peshawar

One person died in an accident in Sardar Ghari.  Nawaz, 27, was killed when a rickshaw crushed him to death.

Shangla

At least four people died and seven others were injured when a car plunged into a deep ravine in Dandai.



According to a Besham police official, the vehicle carrying picnickers careened into a ravine when the driver lost control. Four people, including a minor, were killed on the spot and seven others were injured.

The official said the injured were taken to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Besham; three were shifted to Saidu Teaching Hospital in Swat.

In Majaar, a jeep skidded because of rain and fell into a roadside gorge, killing one passenger and injuring two others.

Pabbi

A man walking on a railway track died when a train went over him. A Pabbi policeman said the man was going home along the tracks when a train en route to Karachi from Peshawar hit him.

Haripur

Zainul Abideen, 12, and his elder brother Ahmed Fraz,19, were on their way to the city from Mohallah Ameenabad on their motorcycle when a car ran them over. The two brothers died on the spot, said the police.

Nine-year-old Ghulam Ali from Bandi Sher Khan was crushed to death by a Suzuki van when he was crossing GT Road.

In Hattar village, bike rider Rustam, 25, was killed when he crashed into a speeding car on Taxila-Haripur Road.

Chitral

A van fell into Chitral River resulting in the death of two people.

The van was en route to Drosh from Arandu when the driver lost control at Jastangar Togut. Rehmat Nazir and one unidentified person died in the accident.

Charsadda

A rickshaw carrying eight people fell into a canal in Tangi, Charsadda. Seven of the eight were rescued, however, eight-month-old Jalal died in the accident.

Two men drowned in Kabul River in Sardaryab on the first day of Eid.

An official of Charsadda police said Nasir Iqbal, a resident of Gujrat, Punjab, had been employed at a bakery in Charsadda. Iqbal had come with some friends for a picnic at the river bank on the first day of Eid, added the official. Iqbal was swept away by the river when he went swimming; his body was recovered from the river at Amangarh, Nowshera.

The police official said another picnicker also drowned in the river at the same spot. His body had not been found till the filing of this report.

DI Khan

In DI Khan, a passenger van en route to Tank tipped over, injuring three women and a girl.

According to an official of Parwa police, the incident occurred in Puta. He added the injured were taken to District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ).

Hangu

A pickup and a van collided in Hangu, injuring 10 passengers.

An official of the City police said the two vehicles collided with each other near Ibrahimzai. One of the vehicles was en route to Kohat and the other to Hangu.

Kohat

At least eight people were severely injured when a pickup vehicle flipped on its side on Rawalpindi-Kohat Road in Kohat. The vehicle was on its way to Rawalpindi when the driver lost control of the speeding vehicle in Ghorzai. The injured were taken to DHQ in Kohat where two persons were said to be in critical condition.

In a handout issued on Wednesday, Chief Minister Pervez Khattak condoled with the victims of accidents in Chitral, Dir and Karak.

A pickup plummeted into a ravine at Dogdara in Upper Dir while a car collided into a motorbike in Methakhel, Karak.

Weather report

Heavy downpour and hail on Monday and Tuesday created havoc across the province.

According to an official of meteorological department in Peshawar, the current spell of rain and hail will be the harbinger of winter in K-P and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. “This is the first rain of winter,” he said.

Lowari Top also saw the season’s first snow, following rain in Upper Dir. Roads were closed for more than six hours due to landslides and hundreds of vehicles were stranded on Dir-Peshawar-Chitral Road.

Around 12 hours of heavy rain and hail killed small birds and some cattle in Yar Hussain, Yaqobi, Garh, Anbar, Yousfi and Topi areas of Swabi district. Hail also damaged multiple vehicles in these villages and destroyed orchards and standing crops. Local elders and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl leaders made several demands to the government to declare Swabi a “disaster-hit province”.

In DI Khan, Parwa, Kulachi and the outskirts of DI Khan city, the supply of electricity was suspended after the downpour. According to district administration officials, multiple mud houses were destroyed in Dhaki, Paharpur while more than three electricity towers were damaged.

Maize crops in Shangla were also flattened by bad weather. Residents of Besham, Puran and Chakisar also demanded the government declare the district a disaster-hit area and compensate them.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 9th, 2014.

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