MANSEHRA, May 2: Fourteen people, including nine women, were crushed to death and seven others were injured when a huge rock came rolling down a mountain owing to continuous rain and landed on the two houses they were sleeping in in village Katchi Baila near Dubair in the Kohistan district about three kilometres away from the Karakoram Highway on Thursday night.

According to police sources, the local administration rushed to the scene of the accident and recovered the bodies from the debris and admitted the injured to the local hospital.

The two injured were allowed to go home after first aid while three injured women Lal Jani wife, and Asiya Bibi and Saira Bibi were admitted to hospital. The names of two persons who died in the hospital could not be ascertained.

The dead included, Bibi Zehra, wife, and Ejaz and Abbass, sons of Saddar Khan; Shah Lal, wife, Zubaida daughter and Abdur Rashid son of Sabbar Khan; Mohibba, wife, and Khushalo, Bibi Aaisha and Basho alias Brouri daughters of Omar Khan; Raja Gar wife of Aziz and Gulzada son of Younis.