2022 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa wildfires

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2022 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa wildfires
Date(s)May 2022 – June 2022
Location Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Statistics
Burned area14,430 acres
Land useForests and pastures
Impacts
Deaths4

From the end of May to mid June 2022, more than 200 forest fires in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa damaged 14,430 acres of forests and pastures. [1] While 402 incidents of forest fires were reported in one month. The highest number of 129 forest fires was reported in Abbottabad District. According to the report, forest fires broke out at 55 places in Mansehra District, 29 in Lakki Marwat District, 39 in Dera Ismail Khan District and 24 in Swat District. [2] [3] [4]

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Haripur wildfire

On 16 May 2022, hundreds of acres of forest trees were uprooted and hundreds of large trees and shrubs were reduced to ashes in 70% of the forest area, in the hilly area of Makniyal in the Khanpur Tehsil of Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. [5] [6] [7]

Shangla District wildfire

On 4 June 2022, a forest fire broke out in Ali Jan Capri area of Chakesar, a remote area of Shangla District, Pakistan, as a result of which a girl, two children and a woman were burnt to death while collecting firewood. [8] [9] [10]

Some people have also been injured and they have been shifted to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Chakesar. Rescue operation is still going on. [11]

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Makhniyal is a village located in the Haripur District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is situated about 15 kilometers southeast of the city of Haripur, and is part of the Khanpur union council. It is located about 30 kilometers from Islamabad.

References

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