KP’s Mansehra bridge floods, stranding travelers
Friday in the Darband area of MANSEHRA, a significant bridge and a mosque were damaged by downpour-induced flash flooding, halting traffic between Oghi tehsil and the neighboring Torghar district.
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In addition to flooding residences, no harm to public life was reported.
As the flash flood struck the Jodan Nullah region and damaged a main bridge, travellers on the Oghi-Darband Road became stranded.
Vice-commissioner Bilal Shahid Rao informed reporters that the administration had dispatched a team and excavators to the area to reopen the artery.
“We are working to rehabilitate infrastructure in addition to providing swift compensation to the families of those killed in house collapse incidents,” he said.
The District of Columbia says efforts are underway to reopen the road.
Additionally, the DC stated that patwaris were conducting damage assessment surveys.
Current monsoon rains in the Hazara division began on Saturday and persisted intermittently through Friday. Twelve individuals, mostly children and women, have died in separate incidents thus far.
The downpour devastated a cattle pen in Oghi tehsil, resulting in the death of approximately a dozen animals.
Assistant commissioner Saleem Khan instructed livestock officials to conduct a damage assessment in the region.
Meanwhile, more than a dozen corpses that were exposed by heavy rain in a Chania cemetery were moved to and interred in a different cemetery in the vicinity.
Mohammad Sajjad Awan, parliamentary secretary for the interior and member of the national assembly, stated on Friday that massive development projects initiated by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the Hazara division would be completed on time.
“For the first time, a prime minister [Shehbaz Sharif] visited Torghar and other parts of the Hazara division and inaugurated mega development projects for the socioeconomic well-being of the people,” Mr. Awan told reporters.
The parliamentary secretary stated that the federal government had also approved and authorised the release of funds for a small hydropower project in the Shahtot region of Oghi tehsil.
The Frontier Constabulary has trained forest department patrol squads in Hazara division to effectively combat illegal tree felling.
“Now that you know how to hold and fire weapons, you should effectively stop people from illegally cutting down trees in your respective areas,” said FC district officer Pari Gul Tareen to patrol officials at the conclusion of the two-week training programme held at the FC district headquarters in Oghi.
The participants were from the districts of Mansehra, Battagram, Torghar, Upper and Lower Kohistan, and Kolai-Palas.
Saeed Wazir, divisional forest officer, stated that Hazara was wealthy in “green gold,” so illegal tree felling and smuggling occurred in local forests.
“Now, our personnel can respond effectively to gun attacks by illegal woodcutters and smugglers,” he said.
Later, trained officials demonstrated their abilities to the acclaim of instructors.
Ms. Tareen and Mr. Wazir presented them with certificates and financial awards.
