Summary Pickup carrying 3 women and 3 children was swept away by flood water while crossing a nullah.
KHYBER AGENCY (Online) - Flash flood washed away six persons at Speen Qabr in Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency on Saturday.
A pickup was crossing a nulla‚ when flood water hit it. Those died include three 3 children and three women. Search for one dead body was underway.
Director General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Disaster Management Authority Syed Zaheerul Islam said that the authority is in contact with all relevant agencies to continuously monitor flood situation.
He said that twenty-five thousand tents and other necessary items are available for flood affectees.
He said Motor boats have also been dispatched to different locations in Nowshera and Peshawar to evacuate the people from flood hit areas.
Peshawar District Administration in collaboration with PDMA has established fifteen camps in different schools in the flood affected villages of Peshawar District.
According to Flood Cell Peshawar‚ Kabul River at Nowshera is in high flood.
River Kabul at Attock‚ River Shah Alam at Takhtabad and River Adezai at Adezai Brige are in medium flood.
Indus River at Tarbela‚ River Panjkora at Dir‚ River Swat at Khawazakhela and Munda Headworks‚ River Khiali and River Naguman at Charsadda Road are in low flood while rests of the rivers are flowing normal.
