Hundreds Of Graves Washed Away In Charsadda Flood.

Peshawar -- While floods have damaged crops and houses in the district, hundreds of graves from a century-old graveyard have also been washed away in Battagram area here.

Local sources say that more than 500 graves were washed away from an old graveyard belonging to several villages of the district.

Locals attacked the government for failing to build embankments on both sides of the river in a timely manner, claiming that the graveyard could have been preserved.

However, some locals were able to exhume the relatives' bodies from the cemetery and move them to other places for burial.

The presence of several fresh and complete bodies inside graves that were...

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