PESHAWAR: Concerning claims of official carelessness are still surfacing as the tragedy of 12 persons dying in the Swat River owing to a flood continues to raise worries.
Just hours before a flash flood in the Swat River claimed many lives, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa irrigation department sent out several warnings to pertinent organizations and the deputy commissioners of Swat, Charsadda, and Nowshera, according to a departmental investigation.
While having a picnic on a mound close to the bank, 17 members of a Sialkot family were swept away by an unexpected surge in the river. The family was shown stranded on a fast-dwindling stretch of land in disturbing videos that went viral on social media.
