{"id":83215,"date":"2025-08-15T19:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=83215"},"modified":"2025-08-15T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:03:21","slug":"kp-govt-announces-mourning-day-across-province-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/kp-govt-announces-mourning-day-across-province-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"KP govt announces Mourning day across province tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government on Friday announced a day of mourning as torrential flash floods took at least 229 lives throughout the province.<\/p>\n<p>While conducting the relief operation, the KP government&#8217;s MI-17 helicopter carrying relief materials to Salarzai in Bajaur crashed. All five crew members on board attained martyrdom in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Bearing deep regret over their loss, KP <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/cm-gandapur-to-recruit-2500-teachers-for-double-shift-school\/\">Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur<\/a> came forward with deep sympathies to the martyrs&#8217; families. He stated that the nation was with them in their pain and would never forget the sacrifices of its heroic sons.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister declared that the provincial flag would be hoisted at half-mast and the martyrs would be buried with full state honors. He asked God to grant them promotion in their ranks and forbearance for their bereaved families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The helicopter crew laid down their lives to save others. They are our real heroes, and their sacrifices will be remembered in golden words in history,&#8221; Gandapur said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/weather\/pdma-issues-flood-warning-amid-raised-water-levels-in-indus-river\/\">Provincial Disaster Management Authority<\/a> (PDMA) said that flash floods and heavy rains in the last 24 hours have killed 229 people and left 14 others injured in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n<p>The PDMA reports that two women and eight children were among the dead, while the injured total 11 men, two women, and one child.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PDMA report, 30 houses were damaged altogether, with 25 partially damaged and five utterly destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>There were fatal incidents in Bunner, Swat, Bajaur, Torghar, Mansehra, Shangla, and Battagram, and Bajaur and Battagram were found to be the most affected districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government on Friday announced a day of mourning as torrential flash floods took at least 229 lives throughout the province. While conducting the relief operation, the KP government&#8217;s MI-17 helicopter carrying relief materials to Salarzai in Bajaur crashed. All five crew members on board attained martyrdom in the crash. Bearing deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":83224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30716,12480,30715,30714],"class_list":["post-83215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-bajaur-floods","tag-kp-govt","tag-kp-helicopter-crash","tag-mourning-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83225,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83215\/revisions\/83225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}