MANSEHRA: A young man was buried alive under a landslide in Bankot Mitti area of Oghi tehsil here on Wednesday.

Mohammad Imran, 20, was digging earth from a hill to put on the roof of his mud house when a mass of land detached from the hill and fell on him.

The local residents rushed onto the spot and retrieved him from the landslide after hectic efforts of about an hour.

They shifted him to the Civil Hospital in Oghi, where doctors pronounced him as brought dead.

People from different walks of life attended the funeral prayers of the deceased offered in Bankot Mitti area.

Meanwhile, a house was gutted it in the early hours of Wednesday in Khatai area of Oghi tehsil. The family of Ali Nawaz was asleep when fire engulfed the entire house. The blaze was reportedly caused by electric short circuit.

The residents rushed onto the spot and rescued inmates from the blaze.

Household goods, gold ornaments, cash and electronic gadgets were reduced to ashes.

The locals put out the blaze after hectic efforts of hours as according to them the fire tenders of Rescue 1122 and tehsil municipal administration couldn’t reach the spot as the street leading to the house was narrow.

The house owner, however, said he didn’t know the fire broke out. He said the blaze destroyed the entire household goods, cash and gold ornaments.

He said if people had not extinguished the fire, it could have spread to the neighbouring houses in the locality.

Published in Dawn, March 28th, 2024