On the instructions of Secretary Relief and Rehabilitation department, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) on Monday dispatched another consignment of relief materials including edible items and medicines to flood hit Lower Chitral district.
The spokesman Relief Department said that the relief supplies also include 200 family-size tenets, 5000 sandbags, 200 emergency searchlights, 500 kitchen sets and school tents. He said that the relief operation was already underway in the affected areas while PDMA’s teams along with district administration and Rescue 1122 were evacuating the affected people to safer places, adding that PDMA’s humanitarian response facility was fully operational in the affected areas.
On the other hand theMet Office on Monday predicted that the intermittent spell of rain would continue in most parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province till July 28. It said that scattered to widespread wind, thunderstorm-rain with isolated heavy falls is likely to occur over most districts of the province during next 24 to 48 hours. Heavy rain may cause urban flooding in low-lying areas of Peshawar, Mardan, Swabi, Nowshera, Charsadda, DI Khan, Bannu and may trigger landslides in the vulnerable areas of Swat, Chitral, Dir, Shangla, Kohistan, Battagram, Torghar, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Kurram and Khyber districts, it warned.
Heavy rain may also cause flash flooding in Swat, Chitral, Dir, Shangla, Kohistan, Battagram, Torghar, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Kurram and Khyber districts, the Meteorological Department added. During the last 24 hours, the highest rainfall was recorded 65mm in Timergara, 64 in Malamjabba, 61 in Kakul, 38 in Pattan, 37 in Balakot, 16 in Saidu Sharif, nine in Dir, three in Bannu, and two in Mirkhani. The PDMA said that due to heavy rains, 11 houses were partially damaged with two in Bajaur, three each in Buner, Malakand, and Shangla while one house was fully damaged in Swat.
