CHARSADDA: Two persons were killed and one was injured when veranda of their house collapsed in Shabqadar tehsil here on Sunday.

According to the police and locals, veranda of the dilapidated house of Aurang Zeb caved in at Rashakai village burying three inmates. The local people rushed to the spot and retrieved two bodies, 50-year-old wife of Aurang Zeb and his 17-year-old grandson, Saeedullah.

Fauzia, 10, sustained serious injuries and was shifted to the tehsil headquarters hospital, Shabqadar, where doctors referred her to Peshawar in precarious condition.

The bodies were handed over to relatives after postmortem. Later, the deceased were laid to rest in their ancestral graveyard in Saro Kallay.

Meanwhile, residents of Ghaziabad area of Shabqadar tehsil have threatened to stage a sit-in in front of the Chief Minister House in Peshawar on Monday (today) to protest what they called lukewarm attitude of the provincial government and district administration towards the affected people of recent flash floods.

Addressing a press conference on Sunday, local residents, including traders, demanded of the government to compensate the flood-hit people.

They pointed out that the floodwater had submerged shops and markets in Shabqadar and Ghaziabad bazaars, inflicting losses of millions of rupees on them.

The press conference was also attended by JUI-F councillor Mualana Rehmanllah Haqqani, social worker and trader Zar Ali Mohmand, JI MC-I tehsil chief Haji Sakhi Jan, Nisar Khan, and others.

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2017