MANSEHRA: Three officials of the forest department sustained critical injuries when heavy boulders fell on their jeep in Chuchang area of upper Kohistan on Wednesday.

The officials, including forester Abdul Ghani, forest guard Hazrat Bilal and their driver, were on way to their place of duty in Barabah area when heavy boulders from a mountain along with the Karakoram Highway rolled down on their jeep crushing it completely.

The local people rushed to scene and retrieved the injured from the jeep. They took them to the civil hospital in Dasu where doctors after emergency treatment referred the injured to Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad. Eyewitness told media persons that Chuchang area in upper Kohistan was a dangerous point where landslides frequently block traffic on the KKH between Gilgit Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. They demanded of the government to construct a protection wall or dig tunnel at that point for the safety of passengers.

Published in Dawn, March 23rd, 2017

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