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Published 10 Apr, 2009 12:00am

CHITRAL: Landslide destroys houses in Chitral

CHITRAL, April 9 Landslide destroyed six houses in the Newazantek village of Booni on Thursday.

Residents of Booni, some 75 kilometres in the north of here, told Dawn by telephone that the houses had already been evacuated when boulders started rolling down from the hill.

The dwellers had been shifted to the nearby Junali Kotch village where they had been lodged in tents.

The government was yet to provide them with sufficient quantity of commodities of daily life.

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