SWABI: Incidents of setting the harvested wheat crop on fire were reported from different areas of Swabi on Wednesday.

Rescue 1122 and police officials recalled that such incidents also occurred last year. They said in some cases, children set the crop on fire. They said enmities might also have been behind such incidents.

Unknown persons set on fire the harvested wheat crop of a farmer in Babu village of Ismaila after it had been collectedforthreshing.

Immediately after the fire broke out, Raees Khan informed Rescue 1122, which dispatched a firefighting crew to the spot to put out the blaze.

However, the team only managed to save the harvested crop lying in nearby fields.

Raees said he had lost all of his grain, leaving nothing to feed his family till the next crop. He said unidentified persons put his crop on fire.

Similarly, such incidents were also reported from three areas of Topi and from Bamkhel village of Swabi tehsil, incurring heavy losses on poor farmers.

Meanwhile, body of an Afghan national, Shabbir Ahmed, 20, who drowned in the River Indus on Tuesday, was recovered from Kund Park area and handed over to the family.

Also, Abidur Rehman of Sheraghund village was seriously injured when his rivalsopenedfireonhim.-Correspondent