PESHAWAR:Rescue 1122 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is engaged in providing relief to the rain affected people in different districts of the province lashed by torrential rain on Monday.
Heavy downpour in different districts of KP including Abbotabad, Shangla, Manshera, Battagram, Swat and Lower Dir caused flash floods damaging public properties, said Director General Rescue 1122, Dr. Muhammad Khateer.
In a press statement issued here, Dr. Khateer said reports were also received about killing of several people in Lower Dir and Manshera districts.
During the last twenty four hours, he continued, different areas in Abbotabad become inundated including PMA road, AMC Hospital, Karakorum Highway, Hassan Town and Kala Bridge.
Rescue 1122 has shifted 23 patients and injured to different hospitals out of whom condition of three was declared as precarious.
In Abbotabad district, about 70 persons were shifted to safer places, DG Recue 1122, Dr. Khateer continued.
Similarly, about 72 vehicles struck in flash floods, were taken out from gushing water
to safe places.
Landsliding was also reported in Bada Gatta area of Tehsil Alpuri in Shangla district causing partial damage to a hotel while no casualty was reported in the incident.