Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority has announced that 15 more people have died across the country in the last 24 hours, adding to the death toll from flooding caused by ongoing heavy monsoon rains since early June last year in Pakistan.
Heavy rains hit almost the entire country, including the Islamabad-controlled part of the Indian-disputed Kashmir Valley, causing landslides, heavy rains, destruction of bridges, houses and animals, but not Sima in the southwestern province of Balochistan.
Most of the deaths have been reported in the commercial capital of Karachi, where at least 7 people have died in rain-related accidents in the last 24 hours.
And local radio Geo News reported that “lightning and roof collapse killed 8 more people in different parts of northeastern Punjab and Pakistani-administered Kashmir.”
Source: El Nashra