Rescue operation by local volunteers and youth from Gujar tribe continue on second day to recover bodies of two persons who were hit by avalanche at Lawari Top.
CHITRAL, (Pakistan Point News - 02nd Feb, 2018) : Rescue operation by local volunteers and youth from Gujar tribe continue on second day to recover bodies of two persons who were hit by avalanche at Lawari Top. A man and his son working for the ptcl are reported killed after an avalanche buried them on near Lowari top on Chitral side. SHO police station Ashriat Inspector Abdul Muzzafar Shah told this scribe on phone from AShriat the nearest police station to Lawari Top that Nooruddin and his son Ubaidullah, residents of Naghra in Drosh, were working as watchmen of the PTCL tower on the Lowari top.
They were hit by an avalanche near the top of the snow-bound pass when they were going to work at PTCL tower at Lawari top. He said that his son in law survived miraculously and success to reach PS Ashriat who informed police and they started rescue operation from Thursday which is still continued but due to bad weather and rain it creates hurdles in the way of rescue. But independent sources revealed on phone from Lawari top that no rescue team officially has been sent to the area except local volunteers.
Hajji Enzar Gul, elder of Gujar tribe, told this scribe from Lawari Top that he requested his tribe and so many youth reached on the spot on volunteer basis to rescue these missing persons. Enzar Gul appealed to the Federal and provincial governments as well as district administration for deputing trained rescue officials to rescue these two missing persons.
