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August 06, 2008 Wednesday Sha’aban 3, 1429


PESHAWAR: Death toll reaches 10



Bureau Report


PESHAWAR, Aug 5: The death toll from flash floods has reached 10 and 12 others have been injured in different affected localities of Peshawar, said an official statement on Tuesday.

It said relief activities were in progress and cooked food had been served in different affected areas and clean drinking water was being provided through seven tankers of the City Development and Municipal Department.

The army has completed rescue operation and medical teams have been sent to Regi, Mulazai, Lakrae, Patwar Bala, Shai Bala, Charsadda Road and Pajagi area.

Provincial Minister for Revenue Habibur Rahman Tanoli said the government would take every possible step to rehabilitate affected people by giving them relief as early as possible.

During a meeting with the provincial relief commissioner, he said, the government would not leave the flood affected people alone at this critical movement and relief camps would be established at the village level to provide relief goods.

The Jamaat-ud-Daawa also launched relief work in the flood-hit areas of Peshawar and started distribution of relief goods, said a press release here on Tuesday.

It said workers of the organisation had shifted displaced people to safe places and the injured had been taken to hospitals.

Mobile dispensaries and ambulance vehicles have been sent from Punjab to Peshawar and medical teams are providing free treatment.

The Pakistan Red Crescent Society’s Fata branch distributed relief items among the flood affected people in the Khyber Agency. A statement said 35 families had lost their homes and 50 families had been badly affected in Sardar Kaly of the tribal area.







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