ABBOTTABAD: Rescue workers scrambled to reach out to stranded residents and students in schools after heavy rain triggered flash flooding and inundated various localities in Abbottabad city on Saturday.

The rainwater entered the Ayub Medical Complex and flooded the Karakaoram Highway and Abbottabad-Kakul Road.

Rescue 1122 personnel safely recovered more than 200 students of a private school, who were stranded in the floodwater. Hundreds of vehicles were stuck on the roads.

Local police and traffic wardens with the help of rescue workers provided help to the vehicle owners with fork lifter and ropes to cross the flooded roads.

SSP traffic Qamar Hayat was supervising the rescue activities.

Rainwater also damaged shops on the main Mansehra road and also houses in Bilal Town, Hassan Town, Three Kana, Jhangi area, destroying goods.

Rescue 1122 also shifted the patients of cardiac ward of Ayub Medcial Complex to other wards after floodwater entered the hospital.

A rescue operation was also conducted in Bilal Town, Hassan Town, Mansehra Road, Jhangi, Jab Pul and PMA Road, and at least 50 people and 66 vehicles stuck in the floodwater were moved to safer places.

District emergency officer Imran Khan Yousafzai supervised the rescue operation.

Published in Dawn, September 11th, 2022