MANSEHRA: A labourer was buried alive after an avalanche rolled down onto an under-construction house, while eleven passengersincludingwomenand children sustained critical injuries when a truck collided headon with a mini-wagon here on Thursday.
The first incident occurred in the Taroro area of Oghi, where an under-construction house came under a heavy avalanche, burying a labourer alive under the rubble.
Mohammad Nawabzar was working with a mason during the construction of the house when he was buried alive under the mass of soil, while the latter escaped unhurt.People rushed to the spot and, after hectic efforts, retrieved him from the rubble and shifted him to a nearby health facility, where doctors pronounced him dead.
In another incident, 11 people sustained critical injuries when a truck collided head-on with a mini-wagon in Dara area on the outskirts of the city.
Rescue 1122 personnel rushed to the scene along with two ambulances and shifted the injured to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, where the condition of three of them was stated to be critical.
The police, after lodging an FIR, started an investigation to arrest the drivers, who, according to eyewitnesses, managed to flee.
Meanwhile, the Food Safety and Halal Authority seized ahuge quantity of contaminated meat that was being transported here from Lahore, Punjab.
The authority’s personnel, acting on a tip-off, raided a coach upon its arrival from Punjab and seized 450kg of unhygienic meat.
They also launched an inquiry to arrest those involved in its transportation.
The authority’s officials also seized 150kg of contaminated and adulterated milk and destroyed and wasted it publicly.
MOBILE COMPUTER LAB VAN LAUNCHED IN TORGHAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has launched its first-ever mobile computer laboratory van to equip schoolchildren with artificial intelligence (AI) skills in the erstwhile tribal belt of Torghar.
‘This is a big milestoneachieved in one of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s districts with the lowest literacy rate, as this mobile van would visit government primary, middle and high schools to equip male and female students with contemporary and modern computer disciplines,’ Dr Yasir Imran, the deputy commissioner of Torghar, told the inaugural ceremony held at the Government Middle School Shagai on Thursday.
Deputy education officer Shamsur Rehman, assistant commissioner Judbah Fazlur Rehman and assistant commissioner (revenue) Yasir Israr Khan also attended the ceremony.
Dr Yasir said that, in light of the challenges faced by male and female students in the erstwhiletribal belt, the district administration had obtained approval from provincial government for introducing such a high-tech mobile computer laboratory.
‘Torghar is the only district across KP that has undertaken this initiative to educate schoolchildren in computer education and artificial intelligence tops the course designed along modern lines, Dr Yasir said.
The DC said digital education was the need of the hour and could only be made possible when students focused on their studies.
‘We have finalised a sixmonth schedule for the mobile computer laboratory van for government primary, middle and high schools across the district, he said.