MANSEHRA: Four friends lost their lives while one survived after being stuck in floods for three continuous hours in Sanagai area of Lower Kohistan District. According to residents of area yesterday, five victims climbed on a rock to save themselves after being surrounded by heavy flooding. Victims waited for help, however, no rescue team arrived to save them and they were eventually swept away by high-pressure flood water.

Locals of area said that a helicopter could have arrived from Peshawar or Gilgit in an hour if administration wanted. They tried saving them by pulling them with help of a rope, however, they could only save one out of five. They said that they could only rescue one victim while rest four were swept away in floods, adding that they only recovered one of bodies out of four. Video of incident has been going viral on social media and netizens have expressed their anger over administration’s failure to not rescue victims. KP govt declares emergency in Swat. Earlier Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government declared an emergency in Swat after scale of devastation caused by extreme flooding in district reached out of control following record rains. Provincial authorities are facing difficulty in rescuing affected families from hill stations of Swat, Dir, and Chitral. State of emergency will be in effect until August 30 for relief efforts in flood-affected areas of Swat.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 27 2022

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