UPPER DIR: Fifteen people, 10 of them belonging to a family, were killed and seven others injured in two incidents of landslide in Upper Dir on Tuesday.

A house in Badran near Kalkot in Kohistan was hit early in the morning and seven children and three elders of a family were buried under the debris, police and local people said.

Rescue operation was delayed because the place is situated in a remote area about 80km east of Dir district headquarters. There being no road link, it took rescue personnel two hours to reach there.

Police, Levies and Army personnel took part in rescue operation which continued for about seven hours.

MPA Mohammad Ali and police officials confirmed the death of 10 people.

Police said bodies of Asia Bibi, Shagufta, Bano, Sobia, Salma, Ms Bacharom, Sajjad, Abdullah, Gul Nameer and Ishaq were retrieved from the rubble. Gul Bacha received serious injuries.

The second incident took place in Batal in Usherai Darra where a boulder rolled down from a mountain and struck a shop, killing five people, including three school students, and wounding six others.

The students were having snacks at the shop when the boulder struck. Three of the dead were identified as Gohar Ali, Najumuddin and Irfan.

MPA Muhammad Ali asked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to immediately announce compensation for families of dead and injured.