Media Cell, PDMA: The relief activities in the flood affected remote areas of District Chitral were accelerated with special focus on the provision of food items, evacuation of people and restoring of civic facilities including roads, bridges, irrigation channels and water supply schemes. Chairman, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) requisitioned two helicopters on the special request of Provincial Government (PDMA) to carryout relief & rescue operations in remote and cutoff areas of District Chitral. These helicopters conducted 69 sorties, evacuated 785 persons and transported 50,000 KG of food items to different locations of Chitral. According to District Administration Chitral, 22 teams have been assigned, the task of detailed assessment in the affected areas.
Spokesman, PDMA Khyber Pakhtunkhwa