PESHAWAR: At least sixteen people were killed and several others sustained injuries in the fresh spell of rain-related incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said on Friday. According to the reports received from different districts of the province, two men and a woman were killed when avalanche hit vehicles in Abbottabad. Three men and two women also sustained injuries in the incident. In Swabi, four women were killed while a man and two women were injured in roof collapse incidents. The reports said that two children were killed when the roof of a room in the house caved in in Dera Ismail Khan. Two men and a child were injured after the roofs of the rooms in their houses collapsed in Mardan and Tank, respectively.
According to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), eight people have died in Upper Kohistan, six in Swat and two in Shangla.
The rains also partially damaged 25 homes while 29 others were completely wrecked, the authority said, adding that the PDMA director general and the Rescue 1122 director general were reviewing rescue and relief operations.
