Four including three of a family killed in Yarkhun avalanche

Report GH Farooqui, Mastuj

CHITRAL: Four persons including a couple and their four-year-old son were killed when they were hit by a heavy avalanche in Unawuj village of Yarkhun valley on Saturday.
According to police station Mastuj, the four were on their way from Unawuj to another village when they were buried alive under the avalanche. Those who died were identified as Feroz Khan, son of Faraz Khan, who worked as a spoy in Chitral Scouts, his wife and his son Ali Ahmad, 4 years, and another man Affas Khan, son of Khair Ali of Inkip village of Yarkhun.
SHO Mastuj Mohammad Sattar Khan told this scribe that they had also also received information that another avalanche had hit Kan Khoon village killing a large number of cattle.