MANSEHRA: A man was killed, and five members of his family were injured when two excavators being transported on a trailer fell onto their pick-up vehicle in the Changal area of Lower Kohistan district on Tuesday.

“Police personnel retrieved the injured from the wreckage of the vehicle and rushed them to a nearby health facility,” Lower Kohistan District Police Officer (DPO) Zafar Ahmad Khan told reporters.

He said the excavators were being transported via the Karakoram Highway when the trailer driver took a sharp turn, causing the machines to fall onto a pick-up truck.

Six members of a family travelling in the pick-up sustained critical injuries and were shifted to a nearby health facility, where doctors pronounced one of them dead.

The deceased was identified as Ahsan Qayyum, while the injured, including Shah Faisal, Bushra Bibi, Arif Khan, Mohammad Arif and Nasser Khan, were referred to Ayub Medical Complex Hospital in Abbottabad. They belonged to Kolai-Palas district.

Meanwhile, police have arrested two suspects for allegedly assaulting a woman after forcibly entering her house and making explicit videos and photographs of the victim to blackmail her in the Jabori area of Siren Valley.

The victim, while lodging an FIR with Shinkiari police last week, alleged that Abdul Malik and his accomplice, Siddique Latif, barged into her house and assaulted her.

Published in Dawn, November 11th, 2026