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Torrential Rain kills 40 in southern Pakistan |
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June 24, 2007 |
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At least 40 people were killed and scores injured by torrential rain that uprooted trees and huge steel billboards in southern Pakistan, hospitals and emergency services said on Saturday. Many died in roof collapses and in electrocutions with much of Pakistan's largest city and its commercial capital plunged into darkness after its power system collapsed. "At least 40 people have died and around 150 were injured in today's rain," Syed Sardar Ahmed, health minister for Sindh province told AFP. Ahmed said that 13 people died in the impoverished Gadap neighbourhood where roofs of shanty houses collapsed due to huge thunderstorms. "We have declared an emergency at all government hospitals and cancelled the vacations and leave of doctors and paramedics," he added. The thunderstorm in Karachi wreaked havoc within an hour on Saturday afternoon, with the Met office saying the port city received 17.2 mm of rain. Source : Yahoo News
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