CHITRAL: A huge landslide in Mroi Bala village of Lower Chitral hit 20 houses on Sunday evening.

Lower Chitral deputy commissioner Mohammad Imran Khan told Dawn that no loss of life was reported in the incident as the occupants of the houses had already left for safer places when the land started drifting in the afternoon.

He said the land started to slide soon after the recent rains, which continued incessantly for five days. He said tents and other food and non-food items had been provided to the affected families.

Meanwhile, a final-year student of a Peshawar-based engineering university was found dead near his motorcycle in his Reshun village of Upper Chitral on Sunday.

Mastuj sub-divisional police officer Muali Shah told Dawn that the deceased had been identified as Rafiq Ali, who had come to his village for Eidul Fitr vacation.

He said the police had started an inquiry to know the real cause of his death, while the postmortem of the body has been carried out in the District Headquarters Hospital.

Published in Dawn, April 22nd, 2024