ABBOTTABAD: Heavy snowfall paralysed life in Galyat, a tourist resort in Abbottabad district, while downpour continued in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday.

Local sources said that Thandiyani, Changla Gali, Ayubia, Donga Gali and other localities in Galyat received three to four feet snow. Power supply has been suspended to Changla Gali and other surrounding areas for the least five days.

The residents of the area said that suspension of power supply resulted in acute shortage of drinking water. The shops and bazaars remained closed as Galyat received the first heavy snowfall of the current winter, they added.

The main road between Bagnother and Nathiagali and Barian to Nathiagali has been closed to traffic due to snowfall. In Thandiyani area, a road from Kalapani to Thandiyani and link road of Patan Kalan and other areas including Kokmang, Chambiali and Sialkot have been closed to traffic.

Local sources said that landslide also blocked link roads in Galyat as the department concerned was yet to remove heavy boulders from the roads.

Zakir Qureshi, a resident of Chambiali, said that his village was cut off from other parts of the district because of landslide.

Also, heavy downpour continued in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal areas on the third consecutive day on Tuesday. An official of Met office told Dawn in Peshawar that moderate rain and snowfall had been recorded in parts of Malakand and Peshawar valley.

Heavy snow blanketed different areas of Shangla district in Malakand division. Snow has also accumulated on Shangla Top that links the area with Swat district and roads have been blocked to traffic.

Snowfall has damaged power transmission lines and telephone connections in the area.

The plain areas of Hazara received rain and high altitude areas received snowfall on third consecutive day. Mansehra, Battagram, Kohistan and Torghar districts of Hazara received rain intermittently, bringing down the temperature to 11 Celsius.

Kaghan, Konsh, Siren and Heavy snowfall paralyses life in Galyat Allai valleys received snowfall.

Mahandri-Naran section of Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhad Road, which was blocked due to landslide and snowfall a couple of day ago, remained blocked on Tuesday, compelling the local people to stay inside their houses.

Rainfall continued in Peshawar and four people received injuries when a building collapsed in Gulbahar locality, rescue officials said. They said that the wounded persons were rescued from the debris and shifted to Lady Reading Hospital.

The Met office said that four millimeter rains was recorded in the provincial capital and maximum temperature was 16 degree centigrade. The Met office forecast more rains in the province during the next 24 hours.

Due to continuous rain during the last three days, mud houses started leaking and forced the dwellers to shift their families and belongings to safe structures. Three rooms caved in when mudslide hit the house of Rehmatul Haq at Nambatai village of Maidan in Lower Dir on Tuesday morning due to recent spell of heavy rain. The inmates remained safe in the incident, officials said.

Published in Dawn, March 4th, 2015

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