PARACHINAR/BUNER: Four people were killed and two were injured in separate rain-related incidents in Fata’s Kurram Agency and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Buner district on Friday.

The deaths took the number of the casualty toll from rains and floods in KP and Fata to 10 during the last three days.

Of the deaths, six were reported in KP and four in Fata.

Officials of Kurram Agency’s political administration said three people were killed and five others suffered injuries on Friday after their two-room house collapsed in Arali area of lower Kurram due to heavy downpour.

They said the house collapse buried all inmates alive.

The neighbours rushed to the house after the incident and pulled out the people from under the rubble.

Met Office forecasts more rainfall, warns of landslides in Malakand and Hazara

Tahira and her two daughters were found to be dead, while five others, including Sher Akbar, Khan Begum, Aisha, Sonia and Aalia, were injured.

The injured people were shifted to the Sadda and Alizai hospitals.

The rains also destroyed the boundary walls of several houses in Kurram Agency.

Also in the day, a six-year-old boy was found dead in Buner district.

Fiaz, a resident of Zaga area in Daggar, was swept away by floodwaters along with two other children as they sat on an embankment of the Barandu River.

The children fell into the river after the embankment slipped sideways.

The people present there rescued the children except Fiaz, whose body was fished out on Friday. The boy was buried in his ancestral graveyard.

Meanwhile, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority on Friday said six people had been killed and 10 suffered injuries across KP in the rain-related incidents.

Twenty-seven houses were also damaged during the current rain spell, showed the details of the rain damages released by the PDMA.

The PDMA said two people were killed in Haripur and four children in Buner, Swabi, Mardan and Mansehra each in rain-related incidents.

Also, such incidents left two people injured in Buner and four in Swabi and Mardan each.

Also, the heavy downpour destroyed five houses in Charsadda, three in Mansehra and four in Lakki Marwat districts and partially damaged six in Lakki Marwat and three in Mardan and Charsadda each.

A spokesperson for the PDMA said the authority had provided relief items to the administrations of the vulnerable districts to replenish stocks of non-food items to be used in case of rain-related emergency.

He said all rivers in the province flowed normally.

“The Indus is flowing at a normal level at Khairabad point and Adezai River at Adezai bridge, while the Kabul River is flowing at a low level at Warsak bridge and in Nowshera district,” he said.

In a weather advisory issued on Thursday evening, the Met Office said the current weather system in the province had weakened.

It, however, said more monsoon rains would fall in upper parts of the province from Sunday to Wednesday.

The Met Office said the moderate-to-heavy rains could cause landslides in the vulnerable areas of KP, including Malakand and Hazara divisions.

It asked all relevant authorities to remain alert from Sunday to Wednesday to meet possible rain-related emergencies.

Published in Dawn, July 15th, 2017