30 dead in Pakistan flood

At least 30 people were killed this week in rain-related disasters in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and three in Punjab.

On Thursday, the second-largest city of Lahore in Punjab province was drenched in the most rainfall it had received in more than four decades, with three people reported dead as homes, shops and hospitals were flooded. 

In the north, rain caused floods and building collapses and heightened the risk of electrocution.

Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority had warned earlier this week strong monsoon currents from the Bay of Bengal would trigger heavy rains and flash floods in the Azad Kashmir region as well as the provinces of Punjab Sindh and KP. At least 24 people were killed and 17 wounded in KP rain-related incidents in the last three days.

The arrival of the monsoon season has sparked floods and landslides across South Asia in the past week, with at least 195 killed and almost 200 missing in one disaster in neighboring India.