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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| At least 26 dead as torrential rain, winds hammer parts of KP |
| 2015-04-27 |
| [DAWN] At least 26 people were killed and more than 180 injured Sunday after a storm struck Pakistain's northwest city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. causing dozens of buildings to collapse, officials said. Fallen trees, rubble from buildings and mobile phone towers had blocked several main roads, an AFP news hound at the scene said, while flood water from torrential rainfall had reached three feet (one metre) deep in some parts of the city of more than three million people. "The corpse count has risen to 26 and 180 people have been injured," senior local government official Riaz Khan Mehsud told AFP. Dr Niaz Saeed, a senior police official, confirmed the figures. Mushtaq Ali Shah, director of the provincial meteorological department, described the storm as a "mini cyclone with wind speeds of 110 kilometres per hour (68 miles per hour)". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The corpse count has risen to 26 and 180 people have been injured A summer Saturday night in Chicago. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-04-27 19:48 |