Army evacuates 22 tourists struck in Kumrat Vally flood

RAWALPINDI 27 Aug (Online): ISPR Reference few families who had gone from Islamabad and struck in Kumrat due to sudden flash floods.

Contact has been established by Peshawar Corps troops on the direction of Corps Commander Peashawar. 22 people have been evacuated through helicopter.

Some families went on hills and couldn’t be evacuated due to bad weather.

However continues contact is maintained with them and those famines have been shifted to safer places around those mountains tops. Those people are safe and will be evacuated by army aviation helicopters as and when weather permits. A ground party is also ready from Khaweza Khela for evacuation. People are requested not to travel towards swat and surrounding areas due to flash floods.

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