RAWALPINDI, Oct 21: Over 6,200 displaced people have been housed in 20 tent villages set up in Balakot and Mansehra. According to figures released by the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), 2,430 people have been housed in the 130 tents at Hassan near Balakot and 1,127 in 206 tents at Basian.
At Kashtra, a 300-tent village houses 510 displaced people. About 50 families are staying in 200 tents in Garhi Habibullah.
Tent villages with 50 shelters each have also been established in Jabri, Shamlai and Shawal and with 20 to 30 shelters in Nawazabad, Bahli, Jabar, Deoli, Battagram, Bhanphora, Garlat, Qadarabad, Bhajur, Sacha Kalan, Khurd and Dudar.
The ISPR said that efforts were being made to provide food, medicines, clean drinking water and other facilities to the displaced people.
A rehabilitation centre has been set up at the Rawalpindi transit camp to look after the affected people brought to the Combined Military Hospital, Military Hospital, Fauji Foundation Hospital and Cantonment Board Hospital.
According to ISPR 627 displaced people were living in the transit camp and 490 of them have been discharged. The camp had been established by the Station Headquarters, Rawalpindi.
At present 137 people, including 96 women and children, were staying in the camp. Fourteen displaced women and children, who also were staying in the camp after having been discharged from hospitals, had joined their relatives, while efforts were being made to find the whereabouts of relatives of the remaining two women.
At the Rawalpindi Military Hospital, four injured girls are waiting for their relatives.
