Four more die in #Lahore as #monsoon spell hovers over country
#LAHORE (MNP) – Four people were #killed and a child was injured after the #roof of their house in the provincial capital collapsed as torrential #rains continued lashing the country on Thursday.
Lahore experienced heavy downpour just a day after a 30-year-old #record was broken as the city’s #LakshmiChowk locality witnessed 291mm of rain in just 10 hours, which resulted in seven deaths.
On Wednesday, the Met Office again warned that heavy rain may cause urban flooding from July 6 to 8 in the low-lying areas of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Attock, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sialkot, Sahiwal, Toba Tek Singh, Multan, Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar Okara, Kohat, Peshawar, Bannu, Karak and DI Khan.
It can also cause landslides in the vulnerable/ hilly areas of Murree, Galliyat, Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Meanwhile, there is also a threat of flash flooding in hill torrents and streams of Kashmir, DG Khan, Kohlu, Sibbi, Barkhan, Zhob, Loralai, Qilla Saifullah and Musakhel during the said period.
The latest deaths in Lahore were reported from Chungi Amar Sidhu area where the rescue workers removed the bodies from the rubble and rushed the injured child to the nearby General Hospital.
