February 20, 2003	Thursday	Zul Hijjah 18, 1423

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PESHAWAR, Feb 19: Thirteen people, including seven women and three children, have died and several others have been injured in roof-collapse incidents in different areas in the Frontier in the past two days as heavy rains continued to lash large parts of the province and the tribal agencies for the fifth consecutive day on Wednesday.

In Kohkar Mera, Abbottabad, five members of a family were buried alive when the roof of their house caved in due to the wall-collapse of a mill on GT Road.

In village Tanan, some seven kilometres from Abbottabad, two sisters aged five and eight were killed when the wall of an adjacent house collapsed on their dwelling due to heavy rains and a windstorm.

In Mansehra, three women of a family were killed on Wednesday when a house collapsed in village Jhangi near Garhi Habibullah due to continuing rain and snowfall in the Hazara region.

In Kohat, a young girl was crushed to death by the falling roof of her house in Garhi Moazan on Tuesday. The victim was a student of the eighth class at the local school. Other members of her family were injured in the incident.

In Mardan, a minor boy was killed and four others of the family, including two girls, were injured when a room in their house in Arabi Banda collapsed due to heavy rains on Wednesday morning.

All main and link roads of Galyat region are lying closed due to landslides.

A heavy snowfall and landslides have left the Karakoram Highway and Mansehra-Naran Road closed. Reports reaching here suggest that walls and roofs of many kutcha houses caved in in different areas.

APP ADDS: In Malam Jabba, a boy was killed when the kitchen of a house collapsed. A heavy snowfall in Kalam and Osho has blocked the road between Mingora and Kalam. It has been snowing in the areas for the last four days without interval. Two glaciers have blocked the main road, creating difficulties for tourists.