CHITRAL: At least seven technicians were killed and another seven sustained injuries when an avalanche hit a workshop of the Korean
company near Lowari Tunnel on Sunday, officials said.
The technicians were employed by the Korean
company which was constructi
ng the Lowari Tunnel to connect Chitral with the rest of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The technicians had started their daily work of repairi
ng the machinery bein
g used in the construction of the tunnel when t
he avalanche hit the workshop, buryi
ng them alive. Rescue activities were launched and seven bodies and the same number of injured were rescued. The dead were identified as Rahmatzada, Jalal, Rahmat Ghazi, Haji Iftikhar, Kamran, Asif and Nadeem.
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