CHITRAL: After a short respite of a week, different valleys in Chitral were devastated by flash floods after torrential rains in Yarkhoon valley of Upper Chitral and Lot Koh valley of Lower Chitral.
A resident of Yarkhoon, Syed Nazir Shah, said that Dubarger, Zhupu, Wasum and Deosar villages in upper Yarkhoon were the worst hit.
He said that more than 100 families were shifted to safer places after their houses were submerged by a swollen river.
Mr Shah said roads to upper Yarkhoon and Broghil had been washed away at multiple places by flash floods, while the Wasum and Deosar villages situated on the right bank of Yarkhoon valley were disconnected from the main road after floods washed away the suspension bridges.
Torkhow and Terich areas in Upper Chitral also received torrential rains, causing floods of low intensity, and suspending traffic for hours on Rech and Khot roads.
In Lower Chitral, the Garam Chashma Road was closed to all kinds of vehicular traffic in Droshp area as a result of the torrential rains, while the streams of Arkari and Karimabad were said to be in high floods. A number of homes in the low-lying areas had been submerged.
The Chitral River was in high floods in Gankorini near Chitral city, which is the confluence of the three main rivers.–Dawn