Vehicles escape accidents on icy road

BOONI, Dec 23: Three vehicles skidded off the road and overturned at Risht between Charun and Reshun on Tuesday morning due to the icy road surface. However, no one was seriously injured. The passengers blamed the officials of the communication and work (C&W) department for the mishap and said they were drawing salaries sitting at their homes without looking after the road during the cold season. They said that any major accident can happen on the road due to its slippery surface. Water flows into the road at different spot and then it gets frozen but the C&W department workers employed to maintain the roads never perform their duties sincerely. The people of upper Chitral have long been demanding that the road, which links upper and lower Chitral, should be repaired as it badly needed reconstruction. After black-topping the road about 20 years ago, the government has never bothered to repair it.]]>