Intermittent rain lashes parts of Pakistan
The current rain spell has been predicted to continue till Sunday.
LAHORE (Web Desk) – Light intermittent rain has continued to lash various parts of the country today (Thursday).
The main rain-receiving areas of the country include Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Mardan, and Rawalpindi divisions, Islamabad, and Kashmir.
Rain was also reported at isolated places in Gujranwala, Sargodha, Lahore, Multan, D.G. Khan, Quetta, Sibi, Makran, and Sukkur divisions.
The maximum 44 millimetre has been recorded at Kakul so far.
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) Office has forecast widespread rain-thundershower in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Rawalpindi, Gujranwala divisions, Islamabad and Kashmir on Thursday.
Rain may also take place at different places in Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Scattered rain-thundershower is expected in D.I Khan, Kohat, Bannu, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Quetta Zhob divisions and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Few hailstorms are also expected in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and upper Pothohar region while snowfall has also been witnessed in Skurdu, Swat and other hilly areas.
The current rain spell will continue till Sunday.
The farmers of wheat and gram in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been advised not to water the crops this week.
Temperature of some major cities recorded on Thursday morning: Islamabad fourteen degree centigrade, Lahore seventeen, Karachi twenty-five, Peshawar twelve, Quetta and Gilgit eleven, Murree three and Muzaffarabad ten degree centigrade.
Earlier, the death toll from torrential rain that had inundated Pakistan for the past days escalated to 42, authorities said Monday, with collapsed roofs blamed for the fatalities.
Apart from the deaths, 70 injuries were reported and 75 houses damaged, said a statement by the National Disaster Management Authority.
Poorly-built homes, particularly in rural areas, are most susceptible to collapse during heavy spring rains.
The death toll from the collapse of a coal mine shaft in northwest Pakistan rose to nine, with 10 injured.
Officials said the rescue at the mine in the far-flung mountainous Orakzai tribal district ended Monday morning after 16 people were saved.
