PESHAWAR: A landslide killed at least two people and injured three others in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, rescue officials said, as authorities warned of continued slope collapses during the monsoon season.
The incident took place in Havelian town in Abbottabad district, according to Rescue 1122, which said emergency teams had transported the victims to a nearby hospital.
“Two people died on the spot and three were injured in the landslide,” the agency said in a statement. “The bodies of the deceased and the injured are being shifted to Civil Hospital Havelian.”
Rescue services said the cause of the landslide had not yet been determined.
Landslides are a recurring hazard in Pakistan’s mountainous regions, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, where heavy monsoon rains, deforestation and fragile soil conditions often trigger slope failures.
