Deccan Chronicle

Pak landslides, floods kill 30

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Peshawar: Landslides and flash floods triggered by torrential rains in northwest Pakistan for the last one week have killed 30 people, injured

38 others and damaged over

100 houses, officials said on Thursday. Heavy rains have wreaked havoc in Swat, Buner, Shangla, Upper Kohistan and Chitral districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhw­a province. Closed roads are being opened for traffic in the affected areas and tourists are shifted to the safer places. Relief goods have been dispatched to the affected districts. The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said that

30 people have been killed and 38 others injured in the flooding in the last one week. Over 100 houses have been damaged due to flooding.

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