Deaths Mount in Pakistan From Heavy Summer Rains
Date: 31-Jul-06
Country: PAKISTAN
The flah flood occurred in Takht-i-Nasrati, a village in Karak district in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), said Zafar Iqbal, the district official.
"More than 20 people were washed away when they were sleeping in a field early on Saturday morning and we have recovered eight dead bodies," Iqbal said, describing how the flash flood had washed away the encampment and cattle grazing nearby.
Eleven people were treated for minor injuries.
On Friday, a flash flood killed nine people while they were offering early morning prayers in Gilgit, some 240 km (150 miles) north of the capital Islamabad.
"Rains would continue in different cities of NWFP, Punjab and Sindh over the weekend," Mohammad Hanif, an metereological department official.
The Flood Commission of Pakistan has issued warnings for people to evacuate homes along the banks of the three main rivers of Pakistan -- the Indus, Ravi and Chenab.
(Reporting by Abdul Sami Piracha in Kohat and Haji Mujtaba in Miranshah, writing by Arshad Sharif)
