Heavy rain, floods in Pakistan kill at least 30; Lahore drenched with record rain
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LAHORE – Floods brought by torrential rains in Pakistan caused damage that killed at least 30 people this week, as the second-largest city of Lahore was drenched in the most rainfall
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 neighbouring India.
Rain pummelled Pakistan’s north, causing floods and building collapses, and heightening the risk of electrocution.
“The 44-year-old rainfall record was broken in Lahore once again,” said a utilities official in the north-eastern province of Punjab, where the authorities tallied six deaths and warned that flash floods were expected in the south this week.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 12 children were among the two dozen people who died in the last three days of rains and floods in the north-western province, Mr Anwar Shehzad, a spokesman for its disaster management agency, told Reuters.
Global organisations, such as the United Nations, see Pakistan as one of the countries most vulnerable to extreme weather and climate change, with floods wreaking havoc in 2022, killing more than 1,700 people and displacing millions. REUTERS
