ABBOTTABAD: At least one forest official was killed and three others were injured as fire erupted in a forest near Bashkoli village Abbottabad.
Forest official Abbassi died and Saddam, Habib and Shan sustained severe burn injuries while fighting the blaze as fire brigade could not reach the area.
Meanwhile, the blaze destroyed thousands of trees in the forest and trees planted during Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KPK) government ‘Billion Tree Programme’.
The injured forest department officials were shifted to Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi.