KHAR: At least eight people including children and women were killed in a landslide incident in Sikandaro area of Tehsil Khar in Bajaur Agency on Friday.
Local political administration officials said that the people were gathering mud for a house in a mountainous area when they were struck by a landslide.
Locals who gathered there to undertake rescue efforts recovered the bodies of six girls, one boy and one woman from the debris, he added. They feared that the death toll could rise.
INP