Three drown as wooden bridge collapses in Kohistan.

• Published date: 17 April 2024

MANSEHRA -- Three labourers drowned and two sustained critical injuries when a makeshift wooden bridge erected on a stream broke in Zaidkhar area of Upper Kohistan on Tuesday.

'We have fished out three bodies, and two seriously injured labourers from Zaidkhar stream and shifted them to a nearby health facility,' Naqibullah, a head constable at Kamila police station, said.

The labourers, according to witnesses, were shifting wooden beams chopped off from a nearby forest to a road through the bridge when it collapsed.

The police rushed onto the spot and fished out the bodies of Akbar Shadoo belonging to Swat, Span Jehan...