24 killed in Pakistan due to heavy rains
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KARACHI: Heavy rains and thunderstorms have killed at least 20 people in Pakistan's Sindh and Baluchistan provinces even as four more such deaths were reported from different parts of the country.
Police and rescue officials said around 40 people had also been injured in the heavy rains and storms that have lashed the Sindh province and some parts of Baluchistan since the last 48 hours.
Compounding the misery of the people living in the rural areas, the Met Department forecast said the rain spell coupled with thunderbolt will continue till Wednesday in Sindh.
The rain spell intermittently continued for four days in Hyderabad, Badin, Shikarpur among others in the southern province.
The low-lying areas in various districts were flooded after heavy rains.
Rainwater entered houses in over two dozens of villages, causing rooftops of several houses to collapse.
Power supply to different areas have been suspended. Rescue officials said the rains had also damaged crops of onion and cotton in the interior of the province and that many people, whose mud houses were swept away by the rains, were still marooned in some areas.
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