16 stranded people rescued

Published April 7, 2007

CHITRAL, April 6: All 16 persons, who had been stranded in different places of the Arkari valley, were rescued on Friday by the Focus Humanitarian Assistance, Pakistan, a subsidiary of the Aga Khan Foundation. The FHA sent a rescue team to the valley to locate the stranded people.

The team found 16 people in four different places of the valley and shifted them in a helicopter to Chitral.

Three of them were hit by boulders and were seriously wounded. They were taken to the DHQ hospital for treatment.

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