SWABI: The flood-hit Dalori Bala and Sarkoi Bala and various other villages of the Gadoon Amazai region have remained without electricity for the last one week, residents complained on Sunday.

The Sarkoi Bala residents told Dawn that the prolonged suspension of power had resulted in severe water shortage.

The residents said Peshawar Electric Supply Company officials told them they needed time because the floods had badly damaged the power infrastructure in the region.

In Sarkoi village, four people were killed and seven injured, besides four houses were destroyed.

Pesco officials say striving to restore supply as soon as possible

During a visit to the area, this correspondent observed that electric poles were lying uprooted on the roads and the cable were scattered all around.

The residents said Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Amir Muqam visited Dalori Bala and assured that the power supply would be restored soon, but to no avail.

It was learnt that Pesco had so far restored electric supply to Gandaf and Besak regions only.

Mohammad Hanif, a retired teacher from Utla village, said the people passed sleepless nights as Pesco staff utterly failed to take practical steps for restoration of power supply to Gadoon consumers.

When contacted, Pesco officials told Dawn that they were striving to restore power supply as soon as possible.

SHOT DEAD: Three people were shot dead in Razaar tehsil, police and rescue officials said on Sunday.

DSP Razaar Shakeel Khan identified the deceased as Abuzar Khan, 25, Bilal Ahmad, 40, and Alamzeb Khan, 42. He said they were staying in the hujra of one Musa Khan in Ismailia village. The three were shot dead by unidentified assailants after midnight when they were asleep.

He said the police were investigating the incident to know as to who were involved in triple murder.

Meanwhile, Ishrat Ali, a resident of Ismaila area, got registered an FIR with the Kalu Khan police station, saying that he was sleeping at his home when someone informed him that the bodies of his cousins, Alamzeb, Bilal Ahmed, residents of Ismaila, and Abuzar, a resident of Shakar Dhand, Mardan, were lying in a room of Musa Khan’s hujra.

He said he immediately went to the place, and found the bodies of the three there. He said they had been shot dead by unknown persons. He said they had no enmity with anyone in the area.

The police registered an FIR against unknown persons and started an investigation.

Separately, son of a police official was killed by unknown motorcyclists in Bamkhel area on Sunday, the police said.

They said unidentified motorcyclists opened fire on Shabbir Hussain, son of Imtiaz Hussain, a police official, killing him on the spot.

The cause of the incident was not known.

Swabi city police registered an FIR and started investigation.

Published in Dawn, August 25th, 2025