MANSEHRA, April 25: At least one hundred families displaced by Oct 8 earthquake, left the Kashtara tent village for their native village on Wednesday.

The displaced families left the Kashtara tent village for Kaghan, Patten Den, Mahandry, Kamal Bin, Khanyan and other areas in a convoy of 110 trucks.

The tent village, being jointly run by the district government and the United Nations Development Fund in Garhi Habibullah, would be closed next month.

At least 46 out of 352 displaced families had already left the tent village for their native villages. Each displaced family was provided free transportation, two months’ ration and 18 CGI sheets to construct makeshift houses in their villages until the compensation amount of Rs75000 or a five marla plot of land was provided to them.

The camp in-charge and an employee of the UNDP, Laila Mukaram, told Dawn that most of the displaced families leaving the tent village consisted of widows and old people.

She said the remaining families would also be moved to their villages prior to May 10, 2007.

She said that a medical team and ambulances were accompanying the convoy to provide the displaced families health care services in case of emergency.

She said that all marooned families living in the Kashtara tent village would be given either Rs75000 or a five marla plot.