MANSEHRA: The Oghi police on Sunday claimed to have arrested 50 suspects during a search and strike operation launched in the wake of the recent terror attacks across the country.

“We have taken into custody over 50 suspects from different parts of the tehsil and seized arms and ammunition from them,” Shamrez Khan, the Oghi DSP, told media persons at a press conference.

He said a police party led by SHO Amir Khan conducted a raid in Shungli Bandi area and seized five 7mm rifles, four other rifles of various bores, many pistols and hundreds of bullets.

Also in the day, Mansehra police launched a mock exercise to prepare the force to meet any untoward incident. A contingent of police executed a mock drill at district jail Mansehra.

Jamal Zeb, a police spokesman, told reporters that mock exercises would also be conducted at school and college level in district.

Meanwhile, at least 19 people, including women and children, sustained critical injures when a passenger van plunged into a ravine in Hari Merra area on Sunday.

The van was on its way to Mansehra from Gali Badral when the driver lost control over the steering in Tanawal area after brake failure.

Local people rushed to scene and shifted the injured to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital in Mansehra and a hospital in Khaki.

Published in Dawn, February 20th, 2017