Chief Minister KP condoles death of 14 people due to lightning in Torgarh area
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As well as Twelve people were killed in a lightning strike in Torgar district 12 bodies were found while search is continue for one missing person. in Tor Ghar district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Lightning struck the hill, causing severe flooding in the area and mudslides on three houses at outskirt of the hill, killing 12 people and 2 injured in this incidence.
Locals voluntaries were busy searching for the bodies after the incident
Three houses were flooded due to heavy rains in Jhatka and Kundan villages of Torgarh district. The three houses were completely damaged Locals have appealed to the district administration to expedite rescue operations and search for the missing persons.
According to District Police Officer Syed Mukhtar Shah total of 14 people were living in these houses which were hit by tremendous flood as a result 11 people were died on the spot the bodies of 11 people have been exhumed from the rubble while the search continues for one missing person. While a severely injured woman and a girl were shifted to Rural Health center. The injured were rushed to a nearby rural hospital for treatment where their condition is telling critically. . The head of the family of the deceased, Junab Khan, and his son are staying in Karachi for working. Local journalist Rabb Nawaz, who was talking to eyewitnesses in the affected area, said the rescue operation was still ongoing. According to Deputy Commissioner Fawad Khan and his PA, machinery and equipment are coming from other districts for rescue which is on its way.
According to the police report, a landslide on 3 houses during midnight of Saturday and Sunday in which 12 people died who confirmed the death of 12 out of 14 people in the houses. One person is still missing local people and police searching him and two others have been seriously injured.
According to the police report, the houses of the two brothers, which were close to each other, were swept away by a landslide in Torghar. Young Gul Nawaz is still buried under the rubble while recently three children including Raz Mina, Romina, Ayesha and Umairah Bibi were recovered.
Another house with three rooms in which a woman and a four-year-old child were buried under the rubble, while two members of the house were critically injured and were rushed to hospital by police and locals.people.
Residents of the area are voluntarily evacuating people from the rubble for which rescue operations have been intensified. Locals and police are taking part in the rescue operations while no one has been reached by the administration so far.
Funeral prayers were offered for those killed in the lightning strike. Hundreds of people attended the funeral prayers. Ten people from one family were died in this incidence..
Affected families and people of the area are appealing to Deputy Commissioner Torghar to expedite the rescue operations and help them to rescue their loved ones from the rubble.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan directed rescue agencies and district administration to reach the affected area immediately and start emergency relief operations in District Torghar area where lightning killed 14 persons.
In a condolence message issued here Sunday, the Chief Minister KP Mahmood Khan also expressed deep sorrow and grief over the loss of 14 precious human lives in the incident. The Chief Minister expressed his heartfelt sympathy and condolences to the affected families.
Mahmood Khan shares the grief of the affected families and said that the provincial government would not leave the victims alone and every possible help will be given to them.
However, reports of heavy rains wreak havoc in Torghar district of Mansehra Hazara division wherein three houses collapsed due to cloudburst during heavy rains. A total of 14 people were crushed to death under the rubble of a house in Mansehra.
The bodies of 11 of the Mansehra victims were recovered from the rubble, Police and officials of the Rescue 1122 confirmed.
The official of the Rescue 1122 said that search for 3 bodies washed away in Mansehra continues while the locals of the area in Mansehra are continuing relief operations with the help of the local Police and Rescue 1122 team.
According to officials of the Rescue 1122 the roof of a house collapsed due to a landslide in Payjo village near Kokol, Abbottabad. Two ambulances of Rescue 1122 Abbottabad along with medical technician, rescue vehicle and recovery vehicle along with rescue and disaster team reached the affected areas and started relief operations. The Rescue Official initially recovered seven people buried under the roof of the house.
Soon after reaching the site of the incident, the Rescue personnel rescue operations started and in Abbottabad so far, the couple and two children have been shifted to Ayub Medical Complex, in which three people have died, the Rescue 1122 official confirmed.
