LAKKI MARWAT: Despite two days of strenuous efforts by local and navy divers the body of a teenage body couldn`t be found. Tahir, 18, had drowned in the Gambila River on Friday.The local administration had called navy experts from Rawalpindi after local divers failed to retrieve the body from the water.

On Saturday, the navy divers launched an extensive search in the deep waters to fish out the body, but in vain.

When contacted Lakki additional assistant commissioner Pir Mohammad Mehsud said excavators and heavy machinery was being used to dig a drain to divert the river water to trace the body.

C O M P E N S A T I O N: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNA Colonel retired Ameerullah Khan Marwat has said that he will approach the provincial and federal governments to get a comprehensive relief package approved for the rain-hit residents of the district.

During a visit to the rain and hailstorm hit villages here on Saturday, the lawmaker sympathised with the affected people, saying that wheat and gram crops had been heavily damaged in the storm.

Lakki additional assistant commissioner Pir Mohammad Mehsud and revenue officials as well as office bearers of Tehrik Tahaffuz Haqoog-i-Marwat, including Johar Mohammad Khan, Haji Zarwali Khan and Haji Mohibullah, accompanied the lawmaker.

Ameerullah Marwat expressed his deep sorrow over the losses and assured that he would use his influence in approving compensation to people.