Heavy rains claim 280 lives; wash away link roads, bridges
PESHAWAR: The destruction being brought about by devastating floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in Northern Areas is still afoot as hundreds of people have lost their lives and thousands other have been rendered homeless.
The catastrophe in last three decades has claimed lives of over 280 innocent people at isolated places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pinjab, Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu Kashmir during three-day long showers.
Scores of people are missing, many houses, link and main bridges, link roads, tributaries have been either completely washed away by floodwater due to spillover from rivers and incessant spate of rains or have been too inundated for a human life to survive.
Lightening in Garkoi village of Asheeray Dara killed at least 17 people and damaged 60 houses, Geo News reported quoting local sources. 20 Chinese engineers working on a hydropower project have also been rescued from Shangla.
Chief Minister House in Gilgit-Baltistan has been inundated due to killing floodwater, forcing CM to vacate CM House, who has taken refuge in a local hotel whereas thousands of people have been caught trapped in Nowshera district after River Kabul was seen in high-floods.
Unprecedented spree of incessant heavy downpours is continued in Gilgit-Baltistan, rendering adjoining areas cutoff with other parts of country.
14 jawans of rangers are trapped in floodwater in Baseen since last night, which has prompted authorities to carry out rescue operation for their safe and sound release.
The situation has turned worst of all times as the floods and rains have wreaked havoc up to the extent of biggest natural disaster and worst human calamity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Spillover from River Swat has entered into River Kabul at Nowshera place resulting in submerging cantonment and other areas in water.
Thousands of people, being trapped in floodwater, are waiting for help from government whereas District Headquarter Hospital was also seen flooded by many feet.
Many link bridges have been washed away, rendering many areas cutoff from other parts of cities and districts and leaving scores of people trapped at isolated places.
Heavy showers have inflicted havoc, devastation in Swat and Shangla districts as furious floodwater, overflowing from River Swat, has played massive destruction in residential areas.
Meanwhile, as many as 16 people have been killed by land sliding in Alandar locality in Shangla district.
In Shangla district alone, more than 90 people have been killed in separate incidents as a result of two-day long spate of the torrential rains.
25 people have been wiped out by floodwater in Swat alone while Kabal, Matta, Bari Kot, Charbagh, Khwaza Khela, Behrin and Babuzai areas are no longer connected with other parts of country owing to destruction of link bridges.
Floodwater has demolished numerous shops and houses in Kalam whereas land sliding, in Surkhel Balabanda locality of Batgram, has killed three brothers and sisters.
A central bridge, a main road and dozens of houses have been inundated by floodwater near Thakot and Oralai due to flesh flood in River Indus.
On second consecutive day, Sahrah-e-Kaghan remained closed for traffic by dint of incessant spree of cruel downpours and back-to-back incidents of land sliding, trapping thousands of tourists in Shogran, Kaghan and Naran districts.
Hundreds of houses have been inundated by floodwater at Kasar place in Kohistan district while the residents of over 10 houses have reportedly gone missing as a result of devastating floods.
The link bridge between Palis and Patan districts has been submerged in floodwater. River Kanhar has been feared to be in high-floods soon at Mansehra District, prompting authorities to evict people from areas settled along riverside.
Civil Hospital, police station and main bazaar have been evacuated in view of anticipated floods in Balakot District.
12 dead bodies have been pulled out from rubble after the Jurma Bridge in Kohat Division collapsed following the deadliest floods in the history.
Four people have been drowned in floodwater in Nowsehra District while over 25 people are still missing.
Doctors, paramedical staff and patients trapped in District Headquarter Hospital have climbed on rooftop after floodwater has inundated hospital up to many feet.
A total of 780 houses, 34 school buildings, 6 main bridges, 28 link bridges, 11 mosques and thousands acres land, meant for irrigation, have been washed away by floodwater at isolated places in Upper Dir.
At least 11 persons including six children have been trampled to death following the collapse of house in Lower Dir while another 21 persons have been lashed out by floodwater.
Nearly 9 persons died and 42 others were injured after floodwater, flowing out from River Swat and Jendi, played annihilation in Charsadda District.
Several villages and the legislative assembly building have been flooded after River Gilgit was seen in high-flood.
Five children have drowned in floodwater in Bannu District while over 40 houses have collapsed in Tehsil Bara in Khyber Agency.
Blast heard in PIA plane at airport
KARACHI: A loud blast has been heard in an engine of PIA’s flight PK-747, a bowing commercial plane, when the airliner was preparing to take off at Jinnah International Airport.
Engine caught fire following blast as the fire and smoke is seen emitting from engine.
Explosion was reportedly happened when one of the engines suddenly started running in reverse, eyewitnesses said.
The flight was bound to Islamabad from Karachi meanwhile rescue vehicles and police mobile vans have arrived near plane to determine the loss of life or goods if happened.
PIA engineers said they will issue clearance after a thorough review of plane condition for operation of a flight.
Devastating rains, floods kill hundreds in KP; scores missing
PESHAWAR: The destruction being brought about by devastating floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in Southern Areas is still afoot as hundreds of people have lost their lives and thousands other have been rendered homeless.
Scores of people are missing, many houses, link and main bridges, link roads, tributaries have been either completely washed away by floodwater due to spillover from rivers and incessant spate of rains or have been too inundated for a human life to survive.
The biggest human catastrophe in last three decades has claimed lives of over 250 innocent people at isolated places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during three-day long showers.
Met office said over 250 mm rain has been recorded so far, forecasting that the worst part was looming ahead.
Chief Minister House in Gilgit-Baltistan has been inundated due to killing floodwater, forcing CM to vacate CM House, who has taken refuge in a local hotel whereas thousands of people have been caught trapped in Nowshera district after River Kabul was seen in high-floods.
Unprecedented spree of incessant heavy downpours is continued in Gilgit-Baltistan, rendering adjoining areas cutoff with other parts of country.
14 jawans of rangers are trapped in floodwater in Baseen since last night, which has prompted authorities to carry out rescue operation for their safe and sound release.
The situation has turned worst of all times as the floods and rains have wreaked havoc up to the extent of biggest natural disaster and worst human calamity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Spillover from River Swat has entered into River Kabul at Nowshera place resulting in submerging cantonment and other areas in water.
Thousands of people, being trapped in floodwater, are waiting for help from government whereas District Headquarter Hospital was also seen flooded by many feet.
At least 230 people have been reportedly killed while scores others have gone missing amid the deadliest spree of incidents occurred once in last three decades, wreaked by heavy downpours and floodwater all across Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province, media reports and television footages reported Friday morning.
Many link bridges have been washed away, rendering many areas cutoff from other parts of cities and districts and leaving scores of people trapped at isolated places.
Heavy showers have inflicted havoc, devastation in Swat and Shangla districts as furious floodwater, overflowing from River Swat, has played massive destruction in residential areas.
Meanwhile, as many as 16 people have been killed by land sliding in Alandar locality in Shangla district.
In Shangla district alone, more than 90 people have been killed in separate incidents as a result of two-day long spate of the torrential rains.
25 people have been wiped out by floodwater in Swat alone while Kabal, Matta, Bari Kot, Charbagh, Khwaza Khela, Behrin and Babuzai areas are no longer connected with other parts of country owing to destruction of link bridges.
Floodwater has demolished numerous shops and houses in Kalam whereas land sliding, in Surkhel Balabanda locality of Batgram, has killed three brothers and sisters.
A central bridge, a main road and dozens of houses have been inundated by floodwater near Thakot and Oralai due to flesh flood in River Indus.
On second consecutive day, Sahrah-e-Kaghan remained closed for traffic by dint of incessant spree of cruel downpours and back-to-back incidents of land sliding, trapping thousands of tourists in Shogran, Kaghan and Naran districts.
Hundreds of houses have been inundated by floodwater at Kasar place in Kohistan district while the residents of over 10 houses have reportedly gone missing as a result of devastating floods.
The link bridge between Palis and Patan districts has been submerged in floodwater. River Kanhar has been feared to be in high-floods soon at Mansehra District, prompting authorities to evict people from areas settled along riverside.
Civil Hospital, police station and main bazaar have been evacuated in view of anticipated floods in Balakot District.
12 dead bodies have been pulled out from rubble after the Jurma Bridge in Kohat Division collapsed following the deadliest floods in the history.
Four people have been drowned in floodwater in Nowsehra District while over 25 people are still missing.
Doctors, paramedical staff and patients trapped in District Headquarter Hospital have climbed on rooftop after floodwater has inundated hospital up to many feet.
A total of 780 houses, 34 school buildings, 6 main bridges, 28 link bridges, 11 mosques and thousands acres land, meant for irrigation, have been washed away by floodwater at isolated places in Upper Dir.
At least 11 persons including six children have been trampled to death following the collapse of house in Lower Dir while another 21 persons have been lashed out by floodwater.
Nearly 9 persons died and 42 others were injured after floodwater, flowing out from River Swat and Jendi, played annihilation in Charsadda District.
Several villages and the legislative assembly building have been flooded after River Gilgit was seen in high-flood.
Five children have drowned in floodwater in Bannu District while over 40 houses have collapsed in Tehsil Bara in Khyber Agency.
Gunman Fired Mexico Ten Killed
CIUDAD JUAREZ: For the second time in two weeks a drug rehabilitation center in Mexico’s violence-scarred Ciudad Juarez became a scene of carnage, when a gunman opened fire and killed 10 people, authorities said on Wednesday.
The attack, which police said was the sixth in the past year at a Mexican drug rehab facility, underscores how drug clinics and their patients have become new targets in deadly turf battles between rival traffickers.
“The attack that killed 10 people was at the Annex of Life AC hostel,” a source from the Municipal Public Security Secretariat (SSPM) who requested anonymity told AFP.
The shooting late Tuesday coincided with Independence Day festivities including noisy fireworks displays that appear to have obscured crime.
Some residents at the live-in facility had already gone to bed, and others were watching television in a common area when they were surprised by a gunman who slipped into the center undetected and opened fire.
Some survivors told police that when bullets began to fly, they initially thought they were hearing the sounds of fireworks.
The assault was carried out despite stepped up security around festivities marking the 199th anniversary of the start of Mexico’s struggle for independence from Spain.
Twenty-one other people were also killed in Juarez overnight into Wednesday, including five gunned down in a bar and a federal police agent shot dead outside the general prosecutor’s office, authorities said.
Mexico’s bloody drug violence is at epidemic proportions with some 10,000 people dead since 2008 despite the government deployment of tens of thousands of soldiers across the country, with murders including gruesome beheadings and dismemberments.
Tuesday’s shooting was similar to one that occurred here in early September, when gunmen lined up 18 people and executed them at another drug treatment clinic in this city, a key drug transit point which lies across the border from El Paso, Texas.
Some 8,500 soldiers have been deployed across Juarez, a city of 1.4 million people, to stem violence as cartels vie for control of lucrative smuggling routes and dominance of the local narcotics market.
In April, US President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon set out an ambitious bilateral agenda to weaken drug cartels, including improved enforcement of existing gun trafficking laws. Obama also acknowledged that drug consumption in the United States has fueled the violence by helping to keep the cartels in business.
The upsurge of violence here dates back to last year, when the local Linea cartel vying for control against the upstart Sinaloa cartel — once part of a joint alliance– ended their affiliation and made a mutual declaration of war.
The rivalry also is fueled by the personal animosity between the heads of the two groups, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes of the Juarez cartel and Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman of the Sinaloa cartel.
Meanwhile, Michoacan’s state capital Morelia, Calderon’s home city, is also home to the notoriously violent La Familia drug cartel, which teams up with the Los Zetas group of paramilitaries comprised of former soldiers.
Authorities blame La Familia for the deaths of 12 federal intelligence agents whose bodies were discovered dumped along a road in Michoacan last July.
La Familia made an ominous and dramatic debut in 2006 when members rolled five decapitated heads onto a nightclub dance floor.
Gunman Fired Mexico Ten Killed was first posted on September 17, 2009 at 11:55 am.
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Clashes In Mingora Ten Militant Killed
MINGORA: At least 10 militants were killed and six arrested during security forces’ action near Mingora in Swat district meanwhile, forces also claimed to have recovered heavy armaments from the arrested offenders’ possession, Geo news reported on Wednesday.
According to Swat media center, the security forces and police lodged joint action against militants at the bank of River Swat near Mingora last night which resulted in killing of 10 miscreants and arrest of six others.
Arrested militias have been moved to unidentified place for investigation, sources informed media.
Clashes In Mingora Ten Militant Killed was first posted on September 17, 2009 at 12:12 pm.
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