At least six people were killed and 24 others injured in three separate accidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Shangla district on Tuesday.
According to Rescue 1122 spokesperson Rasool Khan Sharif, the first incident occurred in Naredaly area of Tehsil Kana late on Monday afternoon, where a mini jeep plunged into a ravine, killing two people and injuring six.
“Local residents transported the victims to Karora Rural Health Centre, from where the injured were referred to Alpuri district central hospital,” he said. Sunrise.
However, this morning, the roof of a house collapsed as people offered funeral prayers for one of the two people who died in the accident. Sanaullah Khan, a resident, said Sunrise that 11 people were injured in the roof collapse, which also occurred in the Naredaly area.
“Five people were seriously injured when all the mourners fell along with the coffin when the roof collapsed,” he said. “The women and children in the house were injured after the roof collapsed.”
A local resident said four of the 11 injured were transported to a hospital in Swat for further treatment as their condition was critical.
Meanwhile, in another incident that occurred on Tuesday morning in Sarkool area of Chakesar, four people were killed and seven others injured in a road accident, according to police.
Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Mustafa Kamal of Dandai Police Station said Sunrise that a jeep was heading to Sarkool from the remote Taloon area when it fell into a ravine.
“The victims were removed from the ravine and immediately transferred to the Rural Health Center [in] Thakot,” he said. “The deceased and the injured were from the same family and were residents of Taloon.”
Last month, at least two women were killed and 30 others injured when a roller coaster carrying a wedding party crashed into the mountainside on Jab Highway in Haripur, KP, according to Rescue 1122.
A statement from Rescue 1122 said the accident occurred due to brake failure.
Later, four Rescue 1122 ambulances and one rescue vehicle were sent to the spot, he said, adding that the bodies and most of the injured were shifted to the Trauma Center in Haripur. Two of the injured, whose condition was critical, were sent to Abbottabad.
