PESHAWAR: More than 20 trucks were crushed by a landslide on the main road passing through Khyber Pass near Torkham border during a thunderstorm on Tuesday, killing at least two people and leaving dozens more stranded. Officials said.
“Twenty to twenty-five containers are buried in the debris,” Khyber district deputy commissioner Abdul Nasir Khan told JEE News.
“The wreckage is quite extensive and our rescue operation is going on with heavy machinery.”
Two Afghan nationals have been killed, he said, and authorities are trying to recover the bodies. He added that three other people have been taken to hospital and the death toll could rise.
The landslide occurred in the early hours of Tuesday on the main route connecting Pakistan to landlocked Afghanistan, a major transit point for trade between South Asian countries and Central Asia.
Photos shared by authorities showed the truck’s containers mostly buried in piles of rocks.
