28-05-2025
Violent Pakistan storms trigger floods, landslides kill 10
28 May 2025 13:34
MUZAFFARABAD (AFP)At least 10 people were killed and 43 injured as strong winds and thunderstorms triggered flash floods and destroyed homes in central and northern parts of Pakistan, officials said women and a man died in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and three in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the State Disaster Management Authority said, while other officials said two died in Punjab.'One person is still missing,' Haroon Rasheed, a senior government official in Pakistan administered Kashmir, told AFP, adding that 12 houses and a mosque were destroyed in one on Saturday killed at least 14 people and injured over 100 more across the country, which is grappling with increasingly frequent extreme weather events blamed on climate weather is expected to continue in northern and central parts of the country until Saturday, according to the National Disaster Management temperatures in April and May are becoming more common in Pakistan, which usually sees summer begin in early reached near-record levels in April -- as high as 46.5 Celsius (116 Fahrenheit) in parts of Punjab.
Schools in Punjab and southwestern Balochistan provinces have closed early for summer vacations because of the heat.
