F.P. Report
LANDI KOTAL: Torrential downpour created havoc in the area and one small girl has been killed and another has wounded besides events rooms collapse in addition with fall of boundary have been reported in various localities of tehsil Landi Kotal district Khyber on Saturday.
In the fatal incident that took place in the Bazaar Zakha area of Landi Kotal, roof of rooms of one Qudrat caved in that killed his minor daughter, Zainab and injured another one.
The torrential rain that continued for the last two days not only disturbed routine life but also inflicted property and financial loss on the residents.
Numberless cases of room collapse and demolishing of boundary walls have been filed in Khuga Khel, Shiekhmal Khel, Piro Khel, Shelman, Pased Khel, Khyber Zakha Khel and adjacent villages..
According to the locals, heavy and continuous rain washed away link roads alongside Pak-Afghan highway and was suspended by the flesh blood at different sections that multiplied miseries of the travelers.
Landslides near at Anzari checkpoint and Arkhunda point cut the territorial connection of Landi Kotal with Loy-Shelman and Kam-Shelman, police informed.
Tribal Electric Supply Company (TESCO) official said that three pylons have also been damaged in the rain, however power supply is continuing to the localities.
The local administration has kicked off relief works and has started providing tents and other facilities to the rain affectees however locals have expressed dissatisfaction over the slow pace of relief activities, carried out and urged for additional help.
According to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority more rain has been expected in the coming days.
Khudai Khedmatgar demands relief for rain affectees: District Salaar of Khudai Khedmatgar organization demanded of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) administration, parliamentarians and other philanthropist’ bodies to adopt necessary initiatives to provide relief to the rain affected people in Khyber.
Addressing to a press conference in Landi Kotal press club district Khyber on Saturday, Khudai Khedmatgar district Salaar Fazal Rehman Afridi said that hundreds of thousands tribesmen had suffered in the torrential downpour but ironically PDMA and administrative officials beside parliamentarians and philanthropist organizations had turned blind eyes towards them that was injustice to the poor masses.
He maintained that they had alerted Khudai Khedmatgar volunteers in Khyber to facilitate the needy ones although in limited sources they could not carry out a comprehensive campaign to work for the relief of rain affectees.
Flanked by the organization workers, Afridi also criticized the Frontier Work Organization (FWO) for ignoring building of bridges over the spillways at Pak-Afghan highway during its construction that suspended traffic due to flood flashes that need to be built.
He demanded of the provincial government to forthwith chalk out relief plan for the natural disaster affectees especially to the laymen of the tehsil Landi Kotal who suffered a lot and provide them tents and other commodities in that time of need.
