(MENAFN- QNA) Six members of one family were among a dozen people killed by flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across Pakistan, officials said on Monday, warning of more thundershowers in the coming days.
A torrent of water poured down a slope in a Himalayan Valley in Kashmir, sweeping away the car the family was traveling in and killing the husband, wife, and two children and two other relatives, police officer Mohamed Naveed said.
Raging water washed away a house in Chitral district of the north-western province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, killing three people, provincial Information Minister Mushtaq Ghani said.
Separately, three children died when roof of a house collapsed after heavy rain in south-western Balochistan province, provincial government spokesman Jan Buledi said.
The military and civilian rescue agencies were on high alert, said Reema Zuberi, spokeswoman for national disaster department.
Nearly 400 people were killed and crops on thousands of acres lands were destroyed by floods last year during monsoon - a rainy season that starts from mid-July and lasts till end August.
In 2010, flooding killed 1,200 people and displaced or affected one-fifth of the population of 180 million.
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