Three children died and five people were injured when the roofs collapsed in two separate incidents in the Malakand division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after heavy rains in the region.
Last week, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) alerted the district administrations in KP about the possibility of flooding due to a new torrential rain spell from July 11 to 17. Heavy rains and sudden floods have wreaked havoc in the province in June and are scheduled to continue.
Pakistan experiences Monzonian rain from June to September of each year. Heavy rains also trigger mortal floods, landslides and displacements, particularly in vulnerable areas, poorly drained or densely populated.
Lower Dir rescue 1122, spokesman Abdur Rehman told him Dawn.com Today, “a mud house roof in construction collapsed, burying four children under the rubble.”
He said the incident occurred in the Shahi Moro Barowal area along the Pakistan-Fanistan border in Lower Dir.
According to Rescue 1122 spokesman, the rescue team had arrived at the site and recovered the children of the debris and transferred them to a Samar Bagh hospital, where doctors declared two of them dead.
He said that the remaining two children were subjected to medical assistance at the hospital.
In another incident, a child died and a mother and two were injured when a mud ceiling collapsed due to heavy rains in the Opal area of Chakesar Tehsil in Shangla.
Shangla Rescue 1122 spokesman, Rasool Khan Sharif, said Dawn.com That the family was asleep at night when the roof collapsed due to torrential rain.
“The local people had recovered the members of the trapped family who were buried under the rubble,” Sharif said.
The rescue spokesman added that a five -year -old boy was killed while the mother and two other children were injured.
He said that injured family members were taken to the Rasool Khan Sharif Rural Health Center, from where they were referred to a hospital in Mingora, Swat, to receive additional treatment.
The deaths arrived in the middle of an alert of the PDMA KP on the highest risk of flooding of the Glacial Lake (Glof).
“The Department of Meteorology of Pakistan (PMD), Islamabad has suggested that it is likely that a wet spell affects KP in the current week. During this period, scattered rains and electric storms are expected, with heavy falls isolated in KP. KP
“In view of the previous climatic conditions, you are asked to kindly take all the necessary precautionary measures to avoid any loss of lives/ livestock and damage to the infrastructure/ crops,” the alert told the attached commissioners of the upper and lower chitral, Superior Board of Directors, Swat and Superior Kohistan.
Ten people, including eight children, died in separate incidents related to rain in KP on Monday.
The deaths were reported in the districts of Bajaur, Khyber, Malakand, Kohat and Lakki Marwat. The PDMA had confirmed six deaths.
