8 injured, scores missing after land sliding hits NW Pakistan's border area
STORY: 8 injured, scores missing after land sliding hits NW Pakistan's border area
DATELINE: April 19, 2023
LENGTH: 00:00:48
LOCATION: Islamabad
CATEGORY: OTHERS
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the rescue forces
2. various of the landslide site
STORYLINE:
Eight people were injured and scores of others went missing under the rubble following a landslide at the Torkham border in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, rescue sources said.
The incident happened at about 3:50 a.m. local time in the border area near Afghanistan, sources from the state-owned Rescue 1122 told Xinhua.
"It was a massive landslide, and part of a mountain caved in when it was struck by lightning, trapping dozens of trucks waiting to cross the border," the sources added.
Earlier in a statement, Rescue 1122 said that several vehicles caught fire after the landslide, adding that initially three ambulances from the nearby camp of the rescue organization were dispatched to the site.
The statement said that judging from th
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