Downpour troubles: 10 die in rain-related accidents

Met Office expects monsoon rains to begin in first week of July.


Akbar Bajwa June 29, 2014

LAHORE: Ten people, including six children and three women, died in rain-related accidents in Lahore and Sialkot late on Saturday and early Sunday, police and Rescue-1122 said.

Five children and a woman were killed when the roof of a house collapsed in the downpour in Gujjarpura village of Sialkot. The house was owned by Wali Muhammad, a labourer. The children were between six months and 10 years of age.

Witnesses said that rescue teams were late in arriving at the site of the accident.

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Five people were buried under the debris when the roof of a house collapsed in Kot Khwaja Saeed area of the provincial capital on Saturday night.

Rescue officials pulled the injured out of the debris and took them to a hospital where an 80-year-old woman and her five-year-old grandson died.

In Do Moria Pul area, a man, identified as Arshad, died and his wife was seriously injured when the roof of their house caved in.

Rescue-1122 said the houses in Kot Khwaja Saeed and Do Moria Pul were in a dilapidated condition.

A man, Ghafoor, was electrocuted in Kot Abdul Malik.

Three people were injured after a tree fell on a car and a motorcycle near Jinnah Hospital. The vehicles were severely damaged.

The Met Office said that a monsoon trough was likely to develop in the few days that would activate monsoon progression. This would bring monsoon in the country in the first week of July, it said.

The first spell of monsoon rains is expected in the upper parts of the country. Scattered rain/thundershowers are expected in Islamabad, upper Punjab (Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sargodha and Lahore divisions), upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar and Kohat divisions) and Kashmir between Tuesday and Thursday.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 30th, 2014.

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