MANSEHRA: A range officer and two other staffers of the watershed department were killed and three others sustained injuries when a jeep plunged into a deep ravine in Jarad Nikian area of Kaghan valley on Wednesday night.

The official jeep carrying a range officer and other employees was on its way back to Balakot from Kaghan valley when the driver lost control over the steering and the vehicle skidded off the Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhad road and plunged into a deep ravine.

A Rescue 1122 team shifted the injured to civil hospital where doctors pronounced range officer Amjid Khan and two other employees Mohammad Ismail and Mohammad Riaz dead.

The injured Zafar Shah, Mohammad Pervez, who is stated to be the jeep driver, and Babu Kamran were referred to Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad, in critical condition.

According to police, the watershed department’s team had gone to Kaghan valley to check nurseries grown there under the Billion Tree Tsunami programme.

Published in Dawn, December 10th, 2021