Kuwait- Pakistan floodwater kills 26 wedding guests

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 30, (AFP): At least 26 people, mostly children, were killed Saturday when a vehicle carrying wedding guests was washed off a mountainous road by floods and flung into a gorge, officials said. The dead included 18 children and six women. 'Rescue operation has been completed, dead bodies of 26 people had been retrieved,' Rahimullah Mehsud, a local government official of Khyber tribal district, where the incident took place, told AFP. Mehsud earlier said rescue workers and residents were facing difficulties as the 'area is remote and mountainous'