A senior class student dies of dengue fever in Shangla.

SHANGLA -- Another youth died of dengue fever which has become pandemic across the country including Khyber Pakhtunkwa here on Monday.

Atta-ur-Rehman, a student of class 10 belonged to Mir Bala Manzai area and was admitted to a local hospital four days back after being diagnosed with dengue fever. Because of lack of facilities, the young patient was shifted to a hospital at Swat for treatment. But he could not survive and died of the deadly disease there.

Meanwhile, the dengue fever cases have swelled to 5863 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 28 new cases reported, says health department officials here Monday.

The provincial capital remained the worst hit area of the province until now as total number of dengue patients has reached to 2340 after 28...

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