BAJAUR, June 18: Five people, including two women, were killed and three others were injured in roofs collapse incidents in the upper parts of Bajaur Agency as a severe windstorm accompanied by heavy rain lashed the tribal territory on Tuesday evening.

The storm also badly damaged public and private property, disrupting power supply, besides affecting the standing crops and orchards, and killing cattle head.

According to information received from Salarzai subdivision, some 30 kilometres from Khaar, the agency headquarters, two people were killed when two rooms of the house of one Hazrat Gul caved in. The dead also included a 55-year-old woman. Five cattle head also died.

In the Mamond subdivision, a woman, Noor Bibi, wife of Ghareeb Gul, and a minor boy Jan Gul, died when the boundary wall of their house collapsed. A number of houses in the area were also partially damaged.

In another incident, a 15-year-old boy Aslat Khan died, and his father Aslam Khan and mother Nilofar Bibi were seriously injured, when the roof of their house collapsed in the storm. The injured were shifted to the nearby Basic Health Unit, where they were stated to be out of danger.

The storm also uprooted trees, sign boards in Khaar and Inayat Kallay Bazaar, and two vehicles were damaged when the roof of a bus stand caved in.

The accompanying hailstorm also wreaked havoc on the orchards and standing crops in different parts of the agency.