[1] While 402 incidents of forest fires were reported in one month.
The highest number of 129 forest fires was reported in Abbottabad District.
[2][3][4] 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] 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.