MINGORA: Security forces launched a search operation in different areas of Mingora city on Sunday.

Sources said that the security forces and police jointly started the cordon and operation in different parts of the Mingora city, including Tahirabad, Usamanabad, Yakh Kohi and other surrounding areas in the wee hours of Sunday.

They said that the operation was started following information about the presence of some miscreants in those areas.

They said that security forces and police personnel had searched each and every house in the Mingora areas.

“Some arms and ammunition were also recovered during the operation,” they said. According to local people, they were asked to stay at their homes during the search operation.

A few days ago the police had recovered five hand grenades, two pistols, five masks, safety fuses, and other material used in bomb-making from a vacant house in Yakh Kohi area.

SWAT FLOOD: Around 35 more families shifted to safer places after the Swat River inundated their houses at Odu area on Sunday.

About 35 families had left their houses in Sherabad, Sultanabad and Malakabad villages after floodwater entered these areas. Bakhtiar Khan, an official of irrigation department, said that Swat River was in flood at Khwazakhela where the water flow was recorded at 19,571 cusecs in the morning.

The residents said that floodwater inundated their villages because of delay in repair of the damaged safety wall at Angarodheri.

Mehmood Aslam Wazir, Swat deputy commissioner, told Dawn that the district administration had arranged shelters for the affected people in schools. “We have provided also 74 tents to the affected residents of Angarodheri and other areas” he claimed. He said that instructions had been issued to the departments concerned to repair the safety wall.

EDUCATION: Basic Education Community Schools (Becs) on Sunday held a seminar on importance of non-formal education here at government girls’ high school at Saidu Sharif.

Provincial director of BECS Karim Shah said on the occasion that the federal government had introduced the non-formal education in 1995 and now there were a total of 2,685 such schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

He said that they had imparted primary education to 80,000 students across the province since the establishment of non-formal education system in 1995.