Several people were injured Tuesday and over 40 containers and trucks were buried in a heavy landslide during a thunder and lightning storm on Export Road near Torkham Border in the Khyber district.
The Pakistan Army personnel dashed to the landslide site to take part in the relief and rescue operation.
According to Khyber Deputy Commissioner Abdul Nasir Khan, more than five containers also caught fire in the landslide incident. The fire was overcome, and heavy machinery was called in from Peshawar and Nowshera to retrieve the vehicles as wreckage is quite extensive, he added.
A relief operation supervised by the Khyber deputy commissioner and the district police officer was underway.
Over 100 officials of the district administration, rescue, police, Frontier Corp, and National Logistic Cell (NLC) were busy carrying out the relief operation.
Rescue teams from Khyber, Peshawar, Nowshera, Charsadda and Mardan were also taking part in the operation.
Eight people were shifted to hospital in injured condition.
At least 12 ambulances, four fire vehicles, three recovery vehicles and as many heavy excavators of Rescue 1122 were participating in the operation.
According to the rescue sources, parts of two dead bodies were spotted in the debris, and they will be recovered after cutting the stone and the parts of the vehicles.
