SWABI: The district administration distributed non-food items among the rain-hit people in different areas here on Monday.

Three people were killed and several others injured in torrential rains that lashed the district for several days. Rainwater also inundated many areas and damaged crops. The worst-hit were Razaar and Chota Lahor tehsils, officials said.

Revenue department officials prepared a list of the affected people for distribution of relief items among them.

Swabi deputy commissioner Tariqullah told Dawn that they had handed over 20 tents to the affected people in Razaar, 10 each in Chota Lahor and Topi, 20 mattresses each in Chota Lahor and Razaar, 15 in Topi, 20 blankets each in Razaar and Chota Lahor and 15 in Topi.

The administration also gave away 10 mats each in Chota Lahor and Razaar and 10 kitchen sets each in Chota Lahor and Razaar and five in Topi, 20 pillows each in Razaar and Chota Lahor; 10 hygiene kits each in Razaar and Chota Lahor and 15 water coolers in Razaar and five in Chota Lahor.

Rains also damaged 43 rooms in various houses, destroyed two mosques, damaged 20 shops in different regions, 10 tobacco godowns, four schools, a basic health unit, four cattle sheds, two roads, and washed away two causeways, two bridges and eight protection walls.

Masood Jabar, former deputy general secretary of Qaumi Watan Party, said that crops were destroyed in Razaar and Chota Lahor.

He asked the government to come forward and help people in distress. “People’s stored grain was lost after rainwater entered their houses,” he said.

Published in Dawn, August 25th, 2026