Thursday 23 August 2012

Heavy rain, floods kill 14 in Pakistan: Officials


ISLAMABAD: Display surging triggered by heavy rain fall have killed at least 14 people and broken lots of homes in northern Pakistan, government bodies said on Saturday.
Irshad Bhatti, a representative for the country's National Tragedy Management Power said the deaths price may improve as study categories have exposed more deaths but are still assessing the level of reduction.
Most of the deaths were exposed in the northwestern area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where nine people approved away and more than 50 homes were broken. In Pakistan-administered Kashmir, six people were killed after a roof compressed.
“The deaths price may improve, we are assessing the reduction. Save work is continuous and comfort actions have started,” Bhatti said.
Adnan Khan, an official from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa confirmed the deaths price and said he terrifying more deaths.
“Dozens of close relatives have experienced and their homes were broken, several people are still missing” Khan told AFP.
Floods in Pakistan in the summer of 2011 affected 5.8 thousand people, with floodwaters removing creatures, damaging vegetation, homes and features as the country conducted to recover from record inundations the year before.

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