Torrential rains may generate flash flooding in local nullahs
our correspondent
PESHAWAR
Seventeen persons have lost their lives in rain-related incidents in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) as downpours continue to wreak havoc across the country, media reported on Saturday.
Two children were killed and ten injured when roof of a dilapidated house situated in Gaka Wila area of Badair in Peshawar collapsed due to heavy rain. A minor girl lost her life in a similar incident in Charsadda.
Meanwhile, two children died and eight other members of the same family got injured when a roof of their house collapsed in Nowshera on Saturday.
According to the rescue sources, the roof caved-in due to continuous rain in the area. The bodies and the injured were moved to a nearby medical facility.
Meanwhile, according to Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) so far, 15 persons have lost their lives and 27 have been injured in the recent rain related incidents in different areas of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Thirty-eight houses were also partially damaged due to rains.
It is to be mentioned here that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and other parts of the country have received widespread rainfall with wind and thunderstorm in a recent wet spell across the country.
Heavy rainfalls/hailstorms are also expected at few places in Kashmir, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, upper Punjab and northeast Balochistan.
Torrential and continued rains may generate flash flooding in local nullahs while dust raising winds are expected in lower Sindh including Karachi.
Rain received in some cities: Sialkot 57 milimetres Okara 50, Gujranwala 43, Bahawalpur and Chakwal 42, Lahore 39, Toba Tek Singh 38, Kasur 32 and Sargodha 31 milimetres.
Intermittent rain with wind-thunderstorm is likely in Islamabad, upper Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir during the next twelve hours.
Hailstorms are also expected at a few places in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Potohar region and Kashmir. Dry weather is expected in other parts of the country.
Temperature of some major cities recorded this morning: Islamabad eleven degree centigrade, Lahore and Peshawar twelve, Karachi seventeen, Quetta and Murree three, Gilgit nine and Muzaffarabad seven centigrade.
