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Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa has directed maximum assistance to NDMA, PDMA and local administrations for timely and effective rescue and relief efforts in snow hit areas.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), in village Sher Shal, Garam Chashma, Chitral FC troops are assisting civil administration and NDMA for rescue of individuals who came under snow slide on Saturday night.
So far seven dead bodies have been recovered and two injured were taken out.
An FC soldier Irshad embraced shahdat and 6 got injured when a Chitral Scout post came under slide in Pishotan, Kandao, Arandu. Soldiers were been rescued early morning, ISPR said.
Earlier At least 14 people were killed on Sunday in avalanches in Chitral’s Sher Shal village.
Talking to a private media, Commandant Chitral Scouts Col Nizamuddin Shah informed that bodies of 14 people have been taken out from the rubble.
Five houses were totally buried under the avalanche, he said.
The dead include six women, six children and two men, Col Nizamuddin Shah added.
Meanwhile, 11 people were rescued and evacuated. Efforts are underway to take the injured to hospital but roads are blocked due to heavy snow, rescue sources said.
Army personnel were headed to the unfortunate site to commence relief activities and provide helicopter for rescue
services. For now, residents of the village were attempting rescue work on their own, according to rescue sources.
