At
least 26 people, mostly children, were killed Saturday when a vehicle carrying
wedding guests was washed off a mountainous road by floods and flung into a
gorge, officials said.
The
dead included 18 children and six women. “Rescue operation has been completed,
dead bodies of 26 people had been retrieved,” Rahimullah Mehsud, a local
government official of Khyber tribal district, where the incident took place,
told AFP. Mehsud earlier said rescue workers and residents were facing
difficulties as the “area is remote and mountainous”.
The
accident happened when a pick-up truck carrying the groom’s party of 29 was hit
by floods in a remote village in Khyber, one of Pakistan’s seven tribal
districts bordering Afghanistan.
Three
people who survived were taken to hospital. Hekmat Khan, another government
official, confirmed the new death toll and told AFP that the child victims were
aged up to nine years.
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