Three including two children injured in separate rain-related mishaps
Weather experts have forecasted more showers during the next 24 hours in the country.
MARDAN (Dunya News) – At least three people on Saturday were injured in separate incidents as heavy rains caused roof collapses.
Weather experts have forecasted more showers during the next 24 hours in the country. Rains lashed a large part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) bringing life to a standstill.
According to details, the heavy downpours in Mardan’s Takht Bhai have badly disrupted daily routine while father and two sons also sustained injuries as roof of a house caved in. Hospital sources told that the child is in critical condition.
Separately, a three-storey building collapsed due to rain-thundershowers in Azad Kashmir’s Mirpur. The building was declared dilapidated a year ago whereas no loss of life has been reported.
Earlier, torrential rains had killed at least nine people including children in southwestern Pakistan this week, disaster management officials said.
The deaths occurred during the last 48 hours in different parts of the oil and gas rich Balochistan province that borders Iran and Afghanistan.
Zahid Saleem, chief of the province’s disaster management authority said four children and a woman were killed Friday after a roof caved in due to heavy rains in Sheerani district.
According to Met Office, widespread rain-thundershower accompanied by strong gusty winds is expected in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Mardan, Kohat divisions), upper Punjab (Sargodha, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore divisions), Islamabad, FATA, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir with isolated hailstorm.
Scattered heavy downpours at times very heavy is expected in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Mardan, Kohat divisions) , FATA, Kashmir, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, and Lahore divisions. Dry weather is expected in Sindh and Balochistan during the next 24 hours.
Every year Pakistan is hit by severe weather patterns, which have killed hundreds and wiped out millions of acres of prime farmland in recent years, harming the heavily agrarian economy.
During the rainy season last summer, torrential downpours and flooding killed 81 people and affected almost 300,000 Pakistanis across the country.
