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At least 32 people have been killed in the past two days as heavy rain triggered flash floods in Pakistan, Dawn reports.
Rescue officials and disaster management authorities say the floods have affected four provinces.
A day after 17 people lost their lives in rain-related accidents, two more casualties were reported on Saturday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reports bdnews24.com citing Dawn.
Charsadda and Shangla saw one death each over the period, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority said.
One person drowned in a river in Charsadda as the continuous rain strengthened the downstream flow. Rescue officials later recovered the body.
A landslide in the Dhok area led to the death of a woman named Jan Ferroza in Shangla.
The PDMA says that rain damaged 56 houses in the area, 50 of which were partially damaged and six completely collapsed.
PUNJAB
Five people, including three minors, were killed and 20 others were injured on Saturday in Punjab.
Punjab Rescue spokesman Farooq Ahmad said that most of the deaths were due to roof collapses.
Two minors were killed and four others injured in Lahore when the roof of a house in Shahdra collapsed.
A four-year-old was killed and two others injured when a house collapsed in Faisalabad. A 55-year-old man was killed by a collapsed wooden roof in Gujranwala.
Similar accidents also left several others injured in the district.
A woman fell into a drain and was killed in Attock.
BALOCHISTAN
Four members of a family, including a girl, were swept away in a flash flood in Balochistan’s Zhob. The family had been coming from Quetta to Multan via the highway, officials said.
They had stopped at a picnic point in Salyazah for a rest when a huge flash flood suddenly hit the area due to heavy rainfall in the mountainous region.
“Six members of the family were swept away in the flash flood,” Naveed Alam, the Zhob assistant commissioner, told Dawn.
Levies and rescue officials managed to save a woman and a driver, but four others drowned in the water.
“The bodies of the victims were sent to their native area of Multan along with the injured woman and driver,” a senior Levies official told Dawn.
SINDH
Four people were killed in Karachi in two separate accidents on Saturday.
Two were killed in a roof collapse in Lyari, while two others were electrocuted to death.
WEATHER FORECAST
Pakistan saw heavy rain across the country on Saturday, with the forecast predicting similar weather for the next few days.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued alerts for glacial lake outburst floods, urban flooding, and flash floods in different regions over the next 48 hours.
The first spell of monsoon rain in Punjab will continue until Jul 1, the PDMA had previously said.